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Sara Marchant is the author of The Driveway Has Two Sides (2018) and Becoming Delilah (2023). Sara received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. Her work has been published by Full Grown People,

Nicholas Russell is now retired. His main career was teaching applied biology, history of science and science communication in colleges and universities. He also undertook educational development work for the Nuffield Foundation and worked as a Head of Department of Humanities at Imperial College Lo

Maggie Hellwig is a writer and instructor of English Literature at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She graduated from Dickinson College with her BFA in English Literature in 2007, and with her MFA in Writing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Maggie’s first short s

Having just retired from working more years than he cares to remember in the NHS, Richard Corney is left free to concentrate on playing the piano, writing, cycling and paragliding. Richard has always been writing, starting as a child. His first love has always been poetry, although he did try to

Sophie van Llewyn grew up in south-eastern Romania, but she now lives in Germany. Her debut fiction book Bottled Goods, published by Fairlight Books in July 2018, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 and the People’s Book Prize 2018. The

B A McHallam has had a varied career path during her working life. She worked in a bank for thirty-one years before taking early retirement from her role as a Bank Manager. From there she became a mature student. Barbara gained a BA and Masters degrees in history at the University of Central Lancash

Alan Robert Clark is a freelance writer and the author of Fairlight Books' historical novels The Prince of Mirrors (2018), its sequel, Valhalla (2020) and The Redemption of Isobel Farrar (2023). Born in Scotland, Alan attended Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire before joining King's College in

Amy Kitcher has been a waitress, a teacher, a shop assistant, a lobbyist, and a politician. She has camped in the Sahara, lived in a Parisian apartment reputedly haunted by a monk and survived being run over by a pensioner. She loves travelling, reading and board games – any form of escapism reall

A former lecturer of English and Spanish Literature and Creative Writing, David Butler is a multi-award-winning novelist, poet, short-story writer and playwright. He tutors regularly at the Irish Writers Centre, and lives in Bray with wife and fellow author Tanya Farrelly. David Butler is the aut

Gordon Gibson lives in Troon, on the south-west coast of Scotland. He started working in steelworks in Motherwell, and later trained as a primary school teacher. This led on to a twenty-year-long career as a lecturer in higher education. In 2010, Gordon Gibson started writing full-time. Since the