SUZANNE BATTY lives in Manchester where she writes, teaches creative writing, performs her work, edits poetry magazine Rain Dog and digs her allotment. She is interested in creative writing as a tool for community and personal development and was a founder member of The A6 Poets – an urban poetry project. Suzanne’s first collection of poems The Barking Thing is published by Bloodaxe Books. She is currently studying the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, working on a second collection of poems, an experimental work of short fiction and a theatre script.
CATHY BOLTON is a student on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam. She lives in Manchester and is the Director of Manchester Literature Festival. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies.
SARAH BROUGHTON’S first novel Other Useful Numbers will be published by Parthian in March 2008. She has written television documentaries on Kathleen Ferrier, Gracie Fields and Josephine Baker, amongst others, and is a regular contributor to the New Welsh Review. She has an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Now living in Cardiff, she works at Forget About It Film & TV.
JUDE BROWN is a student on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. A career gypsy she has been a cook, nurse, designer and clothes smuggler. Her work has appeared in small press publications including The Monkey’s Typewriter, a 2005 award winning anthology by Willesden Writers. She was also shortlisted for a Fish Publishing flash fiction prize.
JILL BURDALL is a born and bred Hull lass, and her home town and its people provide much of the inspiration for her poetry. She is currently completing her MA in poetry at Sheffield Hallam University, and writing a collaborative body of work entitled ‘Taking the Waters’ for performance at the Ilkley Literature Festival.
SUSAN BURNS is a student on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, specialising in poetry. As co-director of Chol Theatre, she is writing the script for ‘Beast Market’, which premieres at Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield in March 2008 and producing ‘Space Circus’, a touring show for schools. She writes poetry and articles and her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines including: Moving Worlds, Mslexia and The North.
SALLY GOLDSMITH started her MA at Hallam in 2007, specialising in poetry. She wrote songs out of research with older people in care for Last Loves, a Radio 4 drama by playwright Rony Robinson. In 2005/6 this won several awards including a Bronze Sony and the BBC Radio and Music Award. She was a commended and anthologised poet in the Arvon 2006 International Poetry Competition.
DAVID HARSENT has published eight collections of poetry. The most recent, Legion, won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards. His work in music theatre has involved collaborations with a number of composers, but most often with Harrison Birtwistle, and has been performed at the Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Proms, the Kammeroper (Vienna), and on BBC2 and Channel 4 TV. A new opera, The Minotaur (also with Birtwistle) will open at ROH in 2008. Work in progress includes a novel, The Wormhole; a projected triptych for Music Theatre Wales entitled Crime Fiction (in collaboration with the composer Huw Watkins); and a new collection of poems. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Distinguished Writing Fellow at Hallam, Sheffield.
LIZ KETTLE’s first novel Broken Biscuits was published by Penguin this year. Liz was born and bred in London, but moved to Sheffield 17 years ago. She wrote Broken Biscuits as her final project for Sheffield Hallam’s MA in Writing.
FRANCES LEVISTON was born in 1982 and grew up in Edinburgh and Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and received a Writing MA from Sheffield Hallam University. Her pamphlet LIGHTER (Mews Press, 2004) was the PBS Bulletin Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2005, and her poems have appeared in the TLS, Poetry Review, and the British Council/Granta New Writing 14, amongst others. She received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2006. Her first collection, PUBLIC DREAM, will be published by Picador.
JULIE LUMSDEN is a student on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam. She is a former editor of Poetry Nottingham and her own work has appeared in magazines including The Frogmore Papers, Orbis and Tears in the Fence. In 2005, she had an Afternoon Play broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
HILARY MANTEL is a visiting professor for the Sheffield Hallam writing MA. She was born in Derbyshire, and her connections with the city go back to her days as a law student. She is working on Wolf Hall, which will be her tenth novel, and hopes to have it ready for publication in 2009.
BEVERLEY NADIN grew up in Swindon and studied English at the University of Southampton. She moved to Sheffield in 2002 and started the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam in 2005, specialising in poetry. She works in adult mental health.
JESSICA PENROSE is a poet and freelance writer whose work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. A southerner happily settled in Yorkshire for almost 20 years, she hopes to complete the MA Writing next year.
TRUDI SUZANNE TAYLOR is studying for her MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and was editor of e-sheaf, Hallam’s undergraduate literary magazine for two years. She has worked on various community projects and recently presented a spoken word event at Peace in the Park for Aneris, a women’s creative collective. Work in progress includes a novel, a children’s book, a radio play and a collection of short stories inspired by Irish tradition and folklore.
LIZA WALLACE is a prolific story-teller. For years she taught English in China and the UK, breaking off to complete two children’s stories. She is now focussing on a poetry collection for the MA writing. Issues of belonging and identity figure strongly in her work. She lives on the edge of the Peak District and has red hair.
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