Authors
Ken Loach
Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and went on to study law at St. Peter’s Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, Loach was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This launched a long career directing films for television and the cinema, from Cathy Come Home and Kes in the sixties to Land And Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Looking For Eric and Route Irish in recent years.
M Y Alam
M Y Alam is the author of two novels, Annie Potts is Dead and Kilo, has had several short stories published and is the editor of Made in Bradford. He is a researcher and teacher at the University of Bradford working in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Mark Gwynne Jones
Mark Gwynne Jones is a poet who works in film, on stage, in print and with music. During his travels Mark has sold poetry to the CIA, won The National Trust Poetry Competition and thrice won the Buxton Festival Fringe. He currently tours with The Psychicbread providing an unforgettable show of music and poetry.
Mark Townsend
Mark Townsend is an award -winning journalist and currently Home Affairs Editor of The Observer. During his fifteen years on newspapers he has covered many of the biggest stories in the world including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was born in Cumbria.
Mike Phipps
Mike Phipps is joint editor of a fortnightly e-newsletter produced by Iraq Occupation Focus and of its website Justice for Iraq. He is a long-standing anti-war and labour movement activist and contributes regularly to Labour Briefing and other publications on international and domestic politics. He lives and works in London.
Anne Caldwell
Anne is the editor of Some Girls’ Mothers, which also features her story ‘Visit to the Psychotherapist’. Her first poetry collection Slug Language was published in 2008 by Happenstance.
Anthony Cropper
Anthony Cropper is the author of the short story collection Nature’s Magician and has published two novels, Jack and Sal and Weatherman. He has co-edited three collections of short stories, Next Stop Hope, Naked City and Wonderwall. In 2005 his play, I’ll Tell You About Love, won the BBC Alfred Bradley Award for Radio Drama.
Cally Taylor
Cally Taylor was born in Worcester and currently lives in Brighton. She is the author of Heaven Can Wait, a supernatural romantic-comedy (Orion Paperback). Her short stories have appeared in QWF, Etchings, The Lancet ‘Fact to Fiction’ special, Aesthetica and a variety of women’s magazines. Her story ‘Imagination Avenue’ features in The Route Book at Bedtime.
Char March
Char March is an award-winning poet, playwright and short fiction writer. She grew up in the 1960s and ’70s in Central Scotland. Char now divides her time between her 82-year-old mum’s (in the NW Highlands) and her own home in the Yorkshire Pennines. Her story ‘The Importance of Tea and Rabbits’ features in Some Girls’ Mothers. www.charmarch.co.uk
Chris Hill
Chris Hill works in communications and has a background in newspaper journalism as a reporter, news editor and editor. He has won a number of short story prizes including the Bridport Prize and his recent novel The Longing was shortlisted for the Daily Telegraph first novel prize. His story ‘So Which is the Way From Here?’ features in The Route Book at Bedtime.