Mohammed Moussa
Mohammed Moussa is a Palestinian freelance journalist, podcast host, and the founder of Gaza Poets Society, based in Gaza.
Luca Serra
Luca Serra is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award awardee. This is Home is his first novel.
Karen Taylor
Karen is a University of East Anglia alumni crime writer whose novel Fairest Creatures was longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger.
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Bidh Marcas ag obair tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig, na Beurla is na Polàrais agus tha e na sgrìobhadair a choisinn deagh chliù is iomadach duais. Thathar an dùil ris an treas co-chruinneachadh aige - 'Polaris' - le Leamington Books.
Ricky Monahan Brown
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.
Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison is an award-winning novelist, scriptwriter and essayist. His fiction tends to focus on the subject of the modern family, cults, idealism and extremism. He is previous winner of Scottish Fiction Book of the Year, for his novel Nina X, (2019); Scottish Book of the Year (SMIT) Fiction Prize for his novel Close Your Eyes (2013); Writer of the Year Award, in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, for Tales from the Mall (2012)
James Flowerdew
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.
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Charlie Roy
Debut novelist Charlie Roy is the author of The Broken Pane. In prose as in poetry, her work focuses on women’s lives, mental health and family.
Sonia Hadj Said
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.
Siné Kang
With confidence in the written word, Sine’s novella The Ground rouses the readers mind in concepts and thoughts that will preoccupy a mind long after the work has been completed.
John Herdman
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.