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David Arnold

David Arnold is a Grammy Award-winning composer and producer famous for scoring all the James Bond films since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as the Hollywood blockbusters Independence Day (1996) and Stargate (1994). Most recently he has produced Dame Shirley Bassey’s new album, The Performance (2009).

Amabel Barraclough

Amabel Barraclough grew up in Scotland and studied English Literature at Edinburgh University. She now works as a freelance journalist in London. She also writes short fiction and is currently working on her first children’s novel.

Ian Cartland

Ian Cartland was born in Derbyshire. He lives in Cambridge, where he is involved in running the CB1 Poetry readings series (www.cb1poetry.org.uk).

Rachel Cook

Rachel Cook is a primary school teacher from Suffolk. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.

Amy Dennis

Amy Dennis lives and works in Edinburgh. Amy draws and paints carefully calculated arrangements of objects and buildings with geometric precision. Recent exhibitions include: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, November 2009 (group); Janette Ray, York, August 2009 (with Michael Kirkman); Cyril Gerber, Glasgow, December 2008 (group). Amy was recently commissioned by the University of York to make three paintings of its modernist campus. Website: www.amycdennis.co.uk

Bayard Godsave

Bayard Godsave’s fiction has appeared in Cimarron Review, Confrontation, Carolina Quarterly, and Another Chicago Magazine. He is currently teaching writing and literature at Cameron University in Oklahoma, and completing work on a novel called The Torture Tree.

Daniel Hardisty

Daniel Hardisty was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1978. He studied English at the University of East Anglia from 1996 to 2000. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK and Ireland.

Kate Kilalea 

Originally from South Africa, Kate Kilalea moved to London in 2005 to study an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first collection, One Eye’d Leigh, is published through Carcanet.

Jenny Kingsley

Jenny Kingsley is an American writer and journalist living in London with her family. She has just completed an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, with Merit. Jenny has finished writing a collection of short stories which she hopes to publish in the very near future.

Olive Kohl-Skuttle 

Olive went to the right sort of school and dates the right sort of chap. She currently works in the meeja. She has an extensive array of porcelain miniatures and enjoys Pimms and climbing.

Helen Lewis

Helen Lewis is a twenty-six-year-old journalist and aspiring screenwriter who lives in Pimlico. She’s also PP’s resident sub-editor.

Benjamin Miller

Benjamin Miller is a twenty-four-year-old musician and freelance journalist living in the Greater London area. He previously studied English at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard has published three collections with Bloodaxe, the most recent of which is Look, Clare! Look! She is a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Essex and has just co-edited the anthology Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st Century.

Sam Riviere

Sam Riviere co-edits the anthology series Stop/Sharpening/ Your/Knives. A recipient of a 2009 Eric Gregory Award, he was recently selected for the Faber New Poets scheme.

Ashna Sarkar

Born in North London to two imminently divorcing social workers, Ashna Sarkar is a seventeen-year-old poet with more eyeliner than sense. From Dalston to the Surrey Downs (via her mum’s kitchen) she’ll take you on a guided tour of the perils of adolescence characterised by smackhead boyfriends, disappointing sexual encounters and twenty-decks of Lucky Strikes.

Nikesh Shukla

Nikesh Shukla is a published author, award-winning filmmaker and internationally touring performance poet. His writing has been featured on BBC2, Radio 1 and 4, Resonance FM and the BBC Asian Network. His work has been published in Tell Tales, Litro, Bad Idea and Transmission Magazine, and he has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Apples and Snakes, Soho Theatre, The Big Chill, Rise Festival, the London Mela and Glastonbury.

Mark Sinclair

Mark Sinclair is currently working on a collection of short stories. He lives in London.

Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson has recently moved out of the west Welsh countryside, where he was selling vegetables, to begin an MA in Writing, Nature and Place at Exeter University. He has had stories, flash fictions and reviews published in several magazines, and is working on a collection when he has time.

Mark Waldron

Mark Waldron writes advertising for a living and lives in east London with his wife and son. His first collection of poems The Brand New Dark was published by Salt Publishing in October 2008.

Tim Wells

Tim Wells has cultivated a laugh that’s more like a caress. He walks properly. He does not slouch, shuffle or stumble about. He knows that wide, floating trousers are only good for wearing on a veranda with a cocktail in your hand. His new collection, Rougher Yet, is published by Donut Press.

Dean Wilson

Dean Wilson – twenty years a postman and eleven years the fourth best poet in Hull.

Stephen Wilson

Stephen Wilson is a retired psychiatrist who has lived and worked in Oxford since the early 1970s. His collection of poems, Fluttering Hands, was published by Greenwich Exchange in 2008 who will also bring out his Student Guide to Isaac Rosenberg next year.