Alice Maddicott
Alice Maddicott is a writer and artist from Somerset. She is the author of Cat Women and Tender Maps, and her third book is under contract.
Her books are published by September Publishing, an imprint of Duckworth Books.
Alice Murray
Alice Murray is a colorectal consultant surgeon, whose taboo-busting guide to gut and butt health, The Bum Bible, which offers self-help advice for understanding and caring for your system, is published by Profile Books.
Chloe L. Ireton
Chloe L. Ireton is a historian and writer based at University College London, where she is Associate Professor of History. She is a British Academy/Wolfson Fellow (2023–26).
Ireton is the author of Plotting for Freedom (Hurst), and the award-winning Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.
Emily Harrison
Emily Harrison is a poet and writer from Swindon. Her debut pamphlet Grief Stitches is published by Makina Books. Her debut novel is NOTHING’S ENOUGH.
Eoghan Walls
Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet and novelist from Derry. His poetry has been shortlisted for multiple international awards, including the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Piggott Prize.
Eoghan teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University and is the author of the novels The Gospel of Orla and Field Notes from an Extinction (Seven Stories Press).
Francesca Bratton is a writer, critic, poet and researcher at the Department of English at the University of Maynooth.
She has previously taught at Durham University, where she studied for a doctorate on Hart Crane, and she is a graduate of St John's College, Oxford and UCL. Francesca has lived in Paris, worked as a bookseller and as a librarian. In 2022 she was awarded the Irish Arts Council Next Generation Award in Literature.
She is the author of Stronger Than Death (JM Originals), and is working on her debut novel.
Francesca Bratton
Jack Faulkner
Jack Faulkner is a writer and chef who grew up in Buckinghamshire and studied English at Falmouth University. For over twenty years he worked in some of London’s most acclaimed restaurants.
He has cooked at two royal palaces, a hotel in the French Alps and a kibbutz on the Israeli–Lebanese border, and spent a season working on the grape harvest in Northern Italy. He currently works in primary schools as a chef and food educator, and his memoir Lunchman is published by Duckworth Books (2027).
Juliet Bates
Juliet Bates was born in the north-east of England. After studying art and art history, she has worked as a lecturer in art schools in the UK and now in France.
The Colours, Juliet's second novel, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown).
Katie Tobin is a writer based in London, completing a PhD in English at Durham University.
Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, frieze, The Guardian, Jacobin, Literary Review, MUBI Notebook, the Times Literary Supplement, Tribune and many more. She has also been shortlisted for the Felicity Bryan Associates New Voices Programme; in 2024 and 2025, she was also longlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.
Katie Tobin
Lois Shearing
Lois Shearing is the author of Pink Pilled: Women and the far right (Manchester University Press).
Their writing focuses on sexuality, gender, sex, relationships, identity, and politics. Most recently, they were Senior Sex and Relationships Writer at Cosmopolitan UK. They have previously been published in DIVA, Metro, The Independent, The Advocate, Mashable, Into, and Byline Times, among others.
Lydia Wilkins
Lydia Wilkins is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor, and is the current editor in chief of Disability Review Magazine.
She has written for a range of titles including The Metro, Stylist, GLAMOUR, The Sick Times, Service 95, The New World, Grazia and others.
As a speaker she has worked with multiple companies including Bath SPA University, Naidex, Content Is Queen, SIC and more. She can be found writing about feminism and disability on Substack at The Disabled Feminist.
She is the author of The Autism Friendly Cookbook and Criminally Misunderstood (Footnote Press).
Nathan Abrams
Nathan Abrams was educated at Oxford and Birmingham Universities, earning a PhD in American Studies. After teaching at various institutions across the UK, he is currently a Professor of Film at Bangor University in Wales. where he lives with his two children and two dogs.
Abrams is the author/editor of many books, including Kubrick: An Odyssey (Faber & Faber) with Robert P. Kolker. His follow-up is a biography of David Mamet, published by Pegasus Books.
Rebecca Wilson
Rebecca Wilson has built up a huge following on her IG account, @rebeccawilsonfood, where she shares recipes along with simple, honest, first-hand advice about weaning her daughter, Nina.
DK/Penguin Random House released Rebecca's first family cookbook to popular acclaim in July 2020.
Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis is a voluminous and witty writer whose groundbreaking work on Peter Sellers changed perceptions of the comedian and British humour. Likewise, his Seasonal Suicide Notes hit a nerve in UK culture. Upcoming work includes volumes on UK comedians, his Welsh background, and much more.
He is a master biographer, and the author of – among others – Erotic Vagrancy, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and The Man Who Was Private Widdle (all published by riverrun).
Samir Puri
Samir Puri is the author of The Great Imperial Hangover (Atlantic Books) and Westlessness (Hodder).
After government service, Dr Puri became a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020 and 2022 was Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia in Singapore.
In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. In January 2025 he was appointed the inaugural director of Chatham House’s Centre for Global Governance and Security.
Eli Davies
Eli Davies is a writer and researcher whose writing on culture, politics and literature has been published widely, including in the Guardian, Vittles, Tribune and the Tangerine.
She is the author of The Spinster Cookbook (The Indigo Press), and co-edited Under My Thumb: Songs that Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them.
Emily Wells
Emily Wells is a writer based in Los Angeles.
She is the author of A Matter of Appearance (Seven Stories Press). It has been featured or reviewed by The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and others.
Emily has an MFA in fiction from UC Riverside and teaches writing at UC Irvine. She is at work on a novel.
Fiona Mozley is the author of Elmet, Hot Stew and Awake Awake. Her novels are published by John Murray.
She is the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award and the Polari Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Women’s Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Edinburgh.
Fiona Mozley
Helen MacNamara
Helen MacNamara is a former deputy cabinet secretary and co-hosts The Independent’s politics podcast, ‘In The Room’, with 10 Downing Street’s ex-deputy chief of staff Cleo Watson.
She is a Chair of Shelter and the Future Governance Forum. Her debut non-fiction work is on submission.
Joshua Kotin is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, global modernism, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature. He received his BA from McGill University and his PhD from the University of Chicago.
He is the author of Utopias of One, and is the director of the digital humanities initiative Shakespeare and Company Project (2014–present).
Kotin is currently completing Poems That Kill, a book about art and politics that focuses on Amiri Baraka’s life and work in 1965, for publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Joshua Kotin
June Aming
June Aming is the author or Yellow is Not for Girls Like Me, a literary debut published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Aming’s writing has previously been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the BCLF prize, and shortlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award and the Small Axe Writing competition.
Kyra Wilder
Kyra Wilder is the author of Little Bandaged Days (Picador) and Gloss (Les Fugitives). She has had poetry and articles published in The Paris Review and McSweeney’s.
Her third novel is currently on submission.
Before her writing career, Kyra cooked in restaurants in California and New York and was the pasta-maker in Michael Tusk's now Michelin-starred restaurant Quince, before receiving her BA and MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University.
Lukasz Bednarski
Lukasz Bednarski is a battery materials analyst, founder of the lithium industry portal Lithium Today and a former commodity trader.
He is the author of Lithium (Hurst) and Invisible Infrastructure (Columbia University Press).
Madeeha Qureshi
Madeeha Qureshi, known as @madeeha_eats on Instagram, is a recipe developer, culinary motivational speaker, international guest chef and consultant and judge for international cookery competitions.
A finalist on MasterChef 2021, Madeeha has captivated audiences with her unique blend of traditional and modern culinary techniques.
Her debut book is The Red Sea Cookbook (Nourish).
Pascale Petit has been awarded the Laurel Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje prize, and the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and for Wales Book of the Year, and shortlisted four times for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Salt published her debut novel, My Hummingbird Father, in 2024.
Pascale Petit
Robert Aickman (Estate)
Aickman was a classic Edwardian writer of ghost stories and television productions. He is a World Fantasy Award winner of 1975, and was awarded the British Fantasy Award in 1981.
2014 was the Robert Aickman Centenary, marked by Faber's re-issuing of his most popular collections. The New York Review Of Books published Compulsory Games in 2018 bringing Aickman to the US audience.
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby is a scholar of late antiquity and the early middle ages based at the University of Oslo. He has written about the political significance of camels, the cities of dog-headed people and apocalyptic diplomacy. The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne is his first book.
His next book of popular history is published by Hodder Press.
Suzannah V. Evans
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut full-length poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, September 2025), shortlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize 2026.