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Kate Abernethy
Kate Abernethy is a children’s author hailing from Scotland, but now living with her family in the paradoxically ancient New Forest.
She collected an MA ...
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Anna Adams
Born in France, raised partly in the United States and in France, Anna grew up loving stories in French and English. Anna is the author of “A French Girl i...
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Maria Motunrayo Adebisi
Maria Motunrayo Adebisi is an avid biscuit eater and anime fiend who enjoys lip syncing badly to songs and going on adventures. She currently works for Bea...
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Vanessa Altin
Vanessa Altin has reported widely on the atrocities in Syria and particularly on the swathes of refugees on the Syrian/Turkish border. In 2015, she launche...
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Annemarie Anang
Annemarie Anang is an actress, musician and former primary school teacher. She began writing for children after struggling to find books for her daughter t...
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Mara Bergman
Mara Bergman is an award-winning children’s writer, poet and editor. She was born in NYC on leap year day and grew up on Long Island, and though she’s live...
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Gina Blaxill
Gina Blaxill has an English degree from Cambridge University and now works in schools liaison, helping teenagers puzzle out the mysteries of higher educati...
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Evelyn Bookless
Evelyn Bookless grew up on a farm in the west of Ireland where she loved to build forts and play in the trees with her siblings. She studied English litera...
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Sarah Bowie
Sarah Bowie is an author, illustrator and arts educator based in Waterford City, Ireland.
Since 2015, she has published three books for children, and her...
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Mark Bradley
Mark Bradley is a comic writer and artist, who lives in West Yorkshire. He grew up reading stories about ghosts and monsters, and promptly decided that he ...
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Alexa Brown
Alexa grew up in Somerset and studied English at Birmingham University before going on to teach at primary school for a few years. Her favourite part of th...
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Danielle Brown
Danielle Brown MBE is a double Paralympic gold medallist and five-time World Champion in archery. Remaining World Number One for her entire career, she bec...
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Anthony Burt
Anthony Burt has worked in primary, secondary and adult education for over twenty years, and run inspiring community youth work, art, film and TV projects ...
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Lanisha Butterfield
Lanisha Butterfield is a self-proclaimed book worm and children’s literature geek, who channelled her passion for writing, into a career that includes time...
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Perdita & Honor Cargill
Honor Cargill began writing when she was about sixteen, co-authoring the funny teen series, Waiting for Callback (Simon & Schuster). Honor read Classic...
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Cathy Cassidy
Cathy Cassidy has written more than 25 books for teens and is a Sunday Times bestseller.
She was voted in the Richard and Judy Best Kids’ Book Ever chart...
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John Connolly
John has written three books for children in the Samuel Johnson series, a young adult fantasy, Conquest, with Jennifer Ridyard and a stand-alone coming-of-...
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Caroline Crowe
Caroline Crowe spent ten years as a national newspaper journalist and section editor before taking time out to look after her three young sons. She lives i...
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Kim Curran
Kim Curran was born in Dublin and raised in London. She spent 25 years working in advertising before quitting to focus on her writing. She’s the author of ...
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Tom Ellen
Tom is an author and journalist from London. He is the co-writer of three critically acclaimed Young Adult novels: Lobsters (which was shortlisted for The ...
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Alex Evelyn
Alex is the author of The Secret Wild. She has a degree in Journalism from Cardiff University and has worked in public relations, as a food writer and phot...
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Addy Farmer
Addy lives in rural North Lincolnshire where she cycles underneath big skies and writes inside a little hut in the garden. She is a frustrated actor who en...
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Martyn Ford
Martyn Ford is a journalist from Hampshire, where he writes for the Bordon Herald. His first book, It Happened to Me, a collection of shocking true stories...
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Stewart Foster
Stewart Foster is the author of one novel for adults, We Used to Be Kings and children’s novels The Bubble Boy, All The Things That Could Go Wrong and Chec...
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Kate Foster
Kate Foster has always been a booklover, reading Enid Blyton and C.S Lewis during lessons and late at night under the covers. She previously worked as a li...
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Lindsay Galvin
Lindsay Galvin is the author of Young Adult novel The Secret Deep and Middle Grade novel Darwin’s Dragons, and her third children’s book will be out Summer...
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Ryan Hammond
Ryan Hammond grew up in leafy Sheffield, surrounded by nature and bad influences. By day he is a children’s book designer and by night he is a secret villa...
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Alice Harman
Alice Harman is an author, editor and slightly obsessive reader of children’s books. She loves writing fun, thoughtful books that make big ideas feel excit...
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Joyce Efia Harmer
Joyce Efia Harmer was born in Lambeth to Ghanaian parents. She has a BA in English Language and Literature at King’s College, London and now teaches Englis...
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Polly Ho-Yen
Polly Ho-Yen was born in Northampton and brought up in Buckinghamshire. She studied English at Birmingham University before working in publishing for sever...
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Olivia Hope
Olivia Hope is an Irish writer with a special love for children’s fiction.
Before writing, she was a former record breaking athlete, and competed interna...
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A.M. Howell
A.M. Howell completed a BA and MA at the University of Manchester and now writes policy documents for local government. In 2015, she was one of fifteen wri...
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Mina Ikemoto
Mina Ikemoto Ghosh is a British-Japanese writer, born in Surrey with family in Wakayama prefecture, Japan. Raised on a diet of Japanese murder-mysteries an...
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Rachel Ip
Rachel Ip has always loved language and literature. After studying modern languages and linguistics at Cambridge University, Rachel worked in marketing com...
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Catherine Jacob
Catherine Jacob is a writer, award-winning television correspondent and Mum to three small children. Her first books, There's a Troll on My Toilet! and San...
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Amie Jordan
Amie is a freelance artist who lives in Salford, Greater Manchester with her son, dog, and grumpy cat. She designs children’s knitwear patterns and oversee...
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Nathanael Lessore
Nathanael Lessore can run 100 metres in under 10 minutes and has trouble finding sunglasses that frame his face properly.
He currently works for a softwa...
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Olivia Levez
You can usually find Olivia binge-writing in her caravan by the sea. She likes hula-hooping, yoga and real ale, but not at the same time.
World English r...
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Hannah Moffatt
Hannah Moffatt is a creative director at a language and behavioural science consultancy, where she spends her days writing very sensible things for busines...
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Ayaan Mohamud
Ayaan is a British-Somali student and writer. She’s a final year medical student at the University of Birmingham and, though she seems like the scientific-...
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Rachel Morrisroe
Rachel Morrisroe is an inventively original new voice in the world of rhyming picture books. With multiple projects under wraps, Rachel is working with lea...
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Laura Noakes
Laura Noakes is a disabled author and historian. An Earl Grey Tea devotee and book lover, she spends her evenings writing middle grade stories featuring hi...
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Adam Perrott
Adam Perrott is a former bookseller who is now a stay-at-home dad. In between looking after his two young children, he also writes jokes for professional c...
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Christen Randall
Christen Randall (she/they) is a queer, fat, neurodiverse author of queer, fat, neurodiverse books. When they’re not writing joyful stories for the next ge...
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Beth Reekles
Beth Reekles is an avid writer, reader, and drinker of tea. When she was fifteen, she penned her novel The Kissing Booth, and began uploading it to story-s...
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Lisa Richardson
Lisa Richardson has a first-class honours degree in Creative and Professional Writing and works as a production editor in financial education. The winner o...
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Jennifer Ridyard
Jennifer Ridyard was born in England in 1971, but grew up in Benoni, a mining town near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Following school – where she excelled...
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Jane Riordan
Jane Riordan grew up next to, and often paddling in, the River Itchen in Hampshire. Jane originally trained to be a primary school teacher but her love of ...
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Ellie Robinson
Ellie Robinson is a multi medal-winning British swimmer, and a world-record breaker in the 50m and 100m butterfly. She won Gold and Bronze medals at Rio 20...
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J.P. Rose
J. P. Rose was born in Manchester, adopted early and grew up in the Yorkshire countryside where racial tolerance ‘wasn’t even a concept’. Feeling isolated,...
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Dave Rudden
A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, Dave Rudden is an author, actor and creative writing teacher based in Dublin. His ...
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Nick Sheridan
Originally from Wexford in Ireland, Nick Sheridan is an award-winning journalist and television presenter, with a decade of experience working in broadcast...
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Rashmi Sirdeshpande
Rashmi Sirdeshpande is a lawyer turned children’s author, with two young children who ask her lots of questions. Rashmi writes non-fiction picture books th...
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Kim Slater
Kim Slater is a full-time writer and lives with her husband in Nottingham.
She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University and teach...
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Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan is a writer and teacher from Galway. She has written seven acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply (Little Island 202...
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Lucy Tandon Copp
An award-winning journalist, Lucy is currently on the Penguin WriteNow '22 editorial programme and is a former recipient of the NUJ's George Viner Memorial...
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Mimi Thebo
Mimi Thebo is a multi Carnegie-medal nominated author for children and teens. She writes about recovery from trauma and her books often feature deep connec...
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Efua Traoré
Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German author who grew up in a small town in Nigeria. For as long as she can remember, her head was bubbling with little stories,...
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Eva Wong Nava
Eva Wong Nava was born on a tropical island where a merlion spurts water. Her ancestors braved monsoon winds sailing to British Malaya to plant roots in So...
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