Gbadamosi, Gabriel
Gabriel is an Irish and Nigerian poet and playwright. His London novel Vauxhall won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths; a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge; and Writer in Residence […]
Evans, Martina
Martina Evans is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork and has lived in London since 1988. The author of thirteen books of prose and poetry, Evans’s first novel, Midnight Feast, (Sinclair-Stevenson) won a Betty Trask Award in 1996. This was followed by The Glass Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) and her third […]
France, Linda
Linda has published 10 collections of poetry since 1990. Her latest include Laurel Prize winner The Knucklebone Floor and Startling. Linda was named inaugural Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23 in the Michael Marks Awards. She won the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 2013 and has received a Society of Authors’ Cholmondeley Award. A […]
Freud, Annie
Annie’s debut pamphlet was published by Donut Press and followed by four collections with Picador. The Best Man That Ever was awarded the Dimplex Prize and The Mirabelles was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015, and was followed by The Remains. Hiddensee is her most recent collection. She taught a thriving poetry composition […]
Groarke, Vona
Vona is the author of 14 books, including eight poetry collections. She was a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library and subsequently published Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara with New York University Press. Poet, essayist, reviewer, editor and former selector for the Poetry Book Society, she has taught at the University […]
Hannah, Sophie
Sophie is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction, poetry, short stories, self-help books and musical theatre librettos. Her books are published in 49 languages and 51 countries and have sold millions of copies worldwide. At the request of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, she […]
Ibrahiim, Khadijah
Khadijah was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Educated at the University of Leeds, she is a literary activist, theatre maker and published writer, who combines inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s most prolific poets by the BBC, her work appears in university journals and poetry anthologies. […]
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei
Nii Ayikwei is a curator, editor and writer. His debut novel, Tail of the Blue Bird, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and won France’s two major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon – in 2014. Translated in multiple languages, he has also written for National Geographic, Financial Times, the […]
Pollard, Clare
Clare has published five collections of poetry, most recently Incarnation. Her play The Weather was performed at The Royal Court Theatre. Her translations include Ovid’s Heroines, which she toured as a one-woman show. She has also written the non-fiction Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Childrens’ Picture Book, a children’s novel, The Untameables, and two […]
Polley, Jacob
Jacob was born and grew up in Cumbria. He has published five books of poems with Picador, UK. His fourth, Jackself, won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry; his third, The Havocs, won the 2012 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His 2009 novel, Talk of the Town, set in and around Carlisle on one day […]
Rees-Jones, Deryn
Deryn has written extensively about twentieth-century women’s poetry, and her landmark anthology Modern Women Poets was published in tandem with her critical work Consorting with Angels. She has received various awards for her own poetry, including an Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley award. Burying the Wren and Erato were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Paula […]
Scott, Richard
Richard was born in London in 1981. His publications include Soho, which was a Gay’s the Word book of the year and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize, and the pamphlet Wound. A poetry collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in February 2025. Richard is a lecturer in […]