Pauline Brown
Pauline Brown worked as a freelance film production accountant before turning her hand to writing several years ago. Since then her work has won the Cheshire Prize for Literature, has received an honorary mention in the Fish Short Story Prize, has twice won the quarterly Flash 500 competition, and has been shortlisted in both the Bridport Prize and Fish Prize flash fiction categories. She is currently plotting a television drama and a novel.
Natasha Derczynski
Natasha Derczynski is a writer and healthcare assistant currently living and working in North London. She completed a BA in English with Creative Writing and MA in Creative Writing, both at Brunel University London. Her short fiction has been published by Queen Mob’s Teahouse, the Manzano Mountain Review and has won the NAWG’s 100x100 flash fiction competition. Natasha believes the best writing is contradictory, entertaining as it challenges, honouring tradition whilst disrupting the status quo and connecting intimacy with universality.
Alanna Donaldson
Alanna Donaldson is a writer from Great Bedwyn whose short stories have been published in print and online. She works in publishing and belongs to an inspiring creative writing group.
Rosie Garland
Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland’s work appears in Under the Radar, Spelk,Manchester Review, Interpreter’s House,The Rialto, Ellipsis, Butcher’s Dog, Longleaf Review,The North and elsewhere. New poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) is out in October 2020. Latest novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.” In 2019, Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT writers.
Linda Goulden
Linda Goulden was born Scots, grew up in Manchester and lives in Derbyshire. She only recently began to write stories, for the first time since childhood, but has been writing poetry for the past decade or so. Her poems have won prizes (Poets and Players, Nottingham Poetry), have been set for choral singing and appear in magazines and anthologies and in her pamphlet of monologue poems, ‘Speaking parts’ (Half Moon Books, 2019). She is currently working on collaborations with artists.
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace is the winner of the Mogford Short Story Prize, Writing the Future, and a Scottish Book Trust ‘New Writers Award.’ Her work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, Flash Frontier and many other journals and anthologies, including Best Microfiction 2019. A founding editor of ‘BIFFY’, the Best British and Irish Flash Fiction series, she is Submissions Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and Senior Editor for Flash Fiction at TSS Publishing. She has a Creative Writing M.Litt. with Distinction from the University of Glasgow, and is currently writing a novel.
Emma Jenkins
Emma Jenkins is a new writer from Liverpool. She works as an educator and art facilitator, and has recently completed an MA in Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Her work is characterised by its hybrid identities. She fuses together the disparate elements of memoir, fiction and philosophy, in order to best reflect the fractured identity of the female.
Niamh Mac Cabe
Niamh Mac Cabe is an award-winning writer and visual artist, with experience as editor, mentor, and collaborator/director on many multi-disciplinary art projects. Dublin-born, she grew up in Paris, in north-west Ireland, and in Washington DC, where she graduated with a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art. She worked overseas for several years in the Animated Film industry, but returned to Ireland to raise her children. She is published in over forty literary journals and anthologies in Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S. She lives with her sons in rural Leitrim, Ireland.
Julie Reverb
Julie Reverb is a London-based fiction writer and former singer. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The White Review, New York Tyrant, The Quietus, Gorse, 3:AM and elsewhere. Her novella No Moon was published by Calamari Press. She is currently editing a novel about makeup titled Blueprint For A Face.
Helen Rye
Helen Rye has won the Bath Flash Award, the Reflex Fiction contest and third place in the Bristol Short Story Prize. She is a Best Small Fictions 2020 winner and her stories have been nominated and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Pushcart Prize. She is part of the editorial teams at SmokeLong Quarterly and Lighthouse Literary Journal and she helps out from time to time at TSS Publishing and Ellipsis Zine. She is studying part-time for an MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she is the 2019/20 Annabel Abbs Scholar.
Chelsea Sutton
Chelsea Sutton writes weird fiction, plays and films. She was a 2016 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and a member of the Clarion UCSD 2020/21 Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Her short story collection, Curious Monsters, was the runner-Up for the 2018 Madeline P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize. Her writing has appeared in Bourbon Penn, The Texas Observer, Exposition Review,Cosmonaut Avenue, Luna Station Quarterly and Pithead Chapel, and is forthcoming in Blood Orange Review, Craft Literary, Sequestrum, and F(r)iction. She was a 2018 Sewanee Writers Conference Playwright Fellow and a Humanitas PlayLA award winner. MFA UC Riverside.