Alexander Williamson (On the Beach) is a writer and photographer. He has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck. His first book is, Laughing Stock, an autofictional memoir. His poems have appeared, sporadically, in Aesthetica, Aspidistra, Dream Catcher, Magma, Orbis and South Bank Poetry. He is currently working on a novel about Henry Miller titled The Cancerian.

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Sahanika Ratnayake (Three People Lost Their Lives) is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in New Zealand and Australia, and has lived in the UK for the past two years. Her work has appeared in Aeon, 3AM Magazine and VICE, as well as Australasian literary journals such as Overland and Poetry New Zealand.

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Helen Smith (In Conversation with…) is the author of An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett which was Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year, winner of the Biographers' Club Prize and a RSl/Jerwood award for Non-Fiction. The book was shortlisted for the Simply Foxed First Biography Prize. She has published articles in various publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Literature in Translation. She lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction at the University of East Anglia.

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Nathan Munday (Bear Stalking in the Bucegi) is a Welsh writer from Carmarthenshire. In 2016 he won the M. Wynn Thomas New Scholars Prize and came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his creative non-fiction book Seven Days: A Pyrenean Adventure, published by Parthian in 2017. He has also been placed twice for poetry in the Terry Hetherington Awards (2019, 2020). When he’s not writing and reading, he enjoys mountains; and works for Christian Aid.

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Matthew Mead (An Escarpment) is a craftsperson and writer. His work has appeared in Textual Practice, Photography & Culture, Cabinet and elsewhere. He lives in London and can be found @other_objects.

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Heather Martin (Lee Child: A Geek and a Nerd in Many Ways) was born in West Australia and moved to London aged sixteen with the idea of becoming a musician. Four years of guitar-playing and a Venezuelan folk group later, she wound up reading languages at Cambridge instead. This led to lectureships in twentiethcentury Spanish and Latin American literature first at Hull, then at King’s College London, and thence to a career in teaching, writing and translating. While researching The Reacher Guy, her biography of Lee Child, she was based for a year at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University New York.

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Yin F Lim (From the Archive) is a Malaysian-born writer and editor living in Norwich. Her creative non-fiction work on family, food and migration has appeared in Hinterland, Porridge, American Writers Review’s ‘Art in the Time of Covid-19’ special issue and in the anthology Who Are We Now? A Collection of True Stories about Brexit. She holds a Creative Non-Fiction MA from the University of East Anglia.

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Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Nearly City) is a writer and educator from Hackney, currently based in Norwich. While working as a secondary school English teacher, he completed his MA in Creative Writing and Publishing and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The 392 was released with OWN IT! in April 2019. His second novel Your Show, a novelisation of the early life and career of former Premier League football referee Uriah Rennie, is to be released with Faber in Spring 2022.

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Tom Hutchings (Chilled Breeze)

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Alice Jolly’s (Big Hugs and Kisses) most recent novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound) was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize and was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize for memoir and the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a short story. Her stories have appeared in Prospect, Ploughshares, The Manchester Review, Litro and Fairlight. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University.

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Meg Freer (Tbilisi Sounds in Transit) grew up in Montana and has worked in book publishing. She now teaches piano, takes photos and enjoys the outdoors yearround in Ontario. Her photos, poems and prose have been published in journals such as Ruminate, Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Young Ravens Literary Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Rat’s Ass Review. In 2017 she attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Her poetry has won awards and have been shortlisted for several contests in both the U.S. and Canada.

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Susan Karen Burton (In Conversation with…) holds two doctorates, in history from the University of Sussex and in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia. She writes primarily about Japan, where she lived and worked for 14 years, latterly as an associate professor at several Japanese universities. Her work has appeared in Times Higher Education, The Telegraph, The Manchester Review, Words and Women, and Going Down Swinging. She is also the co-author of two books in Japanese. She is the winner of the 2020 New Welsh Writing Award’s Rheidol Prize for prose with a Welsh theme or setting, and is currently writing a book about the Welsh in Japan.

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Nick Bradley (Overexposed) is a graduate of both the MA and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing programs at UEA. His debut novel The Cat and The City was published by Atlantic Books in the UK in June 2020, North America in September, and is currently being translated into multiple languages. It was chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Jo Whiley, and has received praise in The Times and The Guardian amongst others. For a decade, Nick lived and worked in Japan.

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Peter Bethanis (The Humma) has published poems, essays, and art in several journals including Poetry, Country Journal, Tar River Poetry and Atticus, among others. He has won the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize, and is the author of two books, Dada and Surrealism for Beginners and American Future.

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