Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris is an emerging flash fiction writer living in Bristol. Her flash narratives have been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Janus Literary, and Ellipsis Zine. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist in Flash Frog’s international award and New Flash Fiction Review’s annual Flash Fiction contest. She has been shortlisted and highly commended in the prestigious Bath Flash Fiction Award, shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and she won the flash fiction contest organised by Welsh publisher Lucent Dreaming.
Sorrel Briggs
Sorrel Briggs is a recent English graduate from West Yorkshire. Her work has appeared at Tate Britain and in various publications. Winner of the Walter Swan Poetry Prize, she writes poetry as well as fiction and is interested in the possibilities offered by bridging the two.
Stuart Cavet
Stuart was formerly an international lawyer, but has taken what he hopes to be a permanent career break to pursue writing full-time. He has had short stories and flash fiction published in Makarelle and Tigershark, and has been shortlisted by Writers’ Forum in one of its monthly competitions and been a finalist in one of Globe Soup’s regular competitions. He has also written a novel for which he is currently seeking representation.
Pauline Clooney
Pauline Clooney was born in Manchester, raised in Ireland, and currently lives there in County Kildare. With a BA in History, Sociology and English, an MLitt on Charlotte Brontë, and an MA in Creative Writing, in 2017 she left a teaching career to concentrate on writing. Her debut novel, Charlotte & Arthur (Merdog Books) was published in 2021. Awards include winner of the 2015 Penguin Ireland/RTE Guide short story, 2021 recipient of the Denis O’Driscoll literary bursary, and 2022 recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility award. Her current works in progress are a W. B. Yeats bio fiction and a short story collection.
Ian Humphreys
Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut poetry collection Zebra (Nine Arches Press) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry (Nine Arches), and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches). Ian’s work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize. His poems are widely published in journals, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London, and he has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works. ianhumphreyspoet.com
Jo Lygo
Jo Lygo lives with her husband and their Schnauzer, Poppy, in the village where she was born. Before moving back to Staffordshire, she taught French and English in France and the East End of London. She has an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and has enjoyed a wide range of shorter courses. She has won or been placed in various competitions for flash fiction and short stories with her flash fiction appearing in two anthologies. She is currently reworking a dual timeline novel set in rural France to include elements of flash fiction alongside longer chapters.
Rosaleen Lynch
Rosaleen Lynch, is an Irish youth and community worker and writer in the East End of London with words in a number of journals, including New Flash Fiction Review, HAD, Fractured Lit, Craft, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, EllipsisZine, Mslexia, Litro and Fish, and has been shortlisted by Bath and the Bridport Prize, is a winner of the HISSAC Flash Fiction Competition and the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and has a collection/workbook coming out in 2023 with Ad Hoc Fiction and can be found on Twitter @quotes_52 and 52Quotes.blogspot.com.
Niamh Mac Cabe
Niamh Mac Cabe is published in many journals, including The Stinging Fly, Narrative Magazine, Southword, Mslexia, Wasafiri, No Alibis Press, The London Magazine, The Irish Independent, Aesthetica, Structo, The Forge Literary Magazine, Bare Fiction, The Lonely Crowd, and The Lighthouse. She’s been nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize, twice for the Best Small Fictions Award, and selected for the Best British & Irish Flash Fiction list. She’s won First Place in many competitions, including The Wasafiri Prize, John McGahern Award, and Molly Keane Award, and Runner-Up in The Costa Short Story Award, Galley Beggar Press Prize, and many others. http://niamhmaccabe.com/
Leeor Ohayon
Leeor Ohayon is a writer from London based in Norwich, where he has recently begun a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His short fiction has appeared in the White Review, Prospect Magazine, and the RSL Review. Leeor is the 2021 winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S Pritchett Short Story Prize, and is part of the 2022-2023 cohort of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme.