Ceitidh Chaimbeul is a prominent figure in the Gaelic community, as a poet, songwriter and teacher. She was the Scottish Poetry Library’s first Gaelic ambassador.

Karen is a University of East Anglia alumni crime writer whose novel Fairest Creatures was longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger.

Ricky’s short fiction has been widely published, including in 404 Ink literary magazine and the Dublin Inquirer. The live literature and music series he co-founded, Interrobang?! won the Saboteur Award for the Best Regular Spoken Word Night in Britain for 2017.

Discovering the runes in his early teens, James is an avid folklorist and historian with a particular focus on ancient pagan cultures. He is a practising neo-pagan with an emphasis on the Northern Tradition, but likes to see that as part of a larger global discourse that spans back to Neolithic times and hopefully into the far future.

Sonia Hadj Said is a Polish-Tunisian writer based in Edinburgh. she’s an author of a novel Jasminowa rewolucja published in Poland in 2015. She worked as a columnist for an online news outlet londynek between 2013-2015 and opened her own platform why magazine in 2017. 

John Herdman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and literary critic. He is the author of seventeen books including five novels and various works of shorter fiction, a play, two critical studies and a memoir, and he has contributed to twenty other books. His work has been translated, broadcast and anthologized, and taught at universities in France, Australia and Russia.