Newland, Courttia: - Courttia Newland is the author of seven works of fiction. His latest, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013 and has been optioned by Cowboy Films as TV Serial for the BBC. He was nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and The Frank O' Conner award, as well as numerous others. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on Radio 4. He is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing.

Angier, Carole: - Carole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill, Oxford and Cambridge. She taught academic and life writing for many years and has edited several books of refugee writing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Hershman, Tania: - Tania Hershman is a former science journalist and is now a short story writer, poet, and novelist specializing in hybrid and cross-genre writing. She has written and edited many books, including an anthology of stories inspired by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics.