10th July – Alison Moore and Pete Goodrum

        Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize. Her most recent novel is Death and the Seaside. Her short...

14th November – Peter Daniels, Peter Wallis

Photo of Peter Daniels by David Green Peter Daniels has won poetry competitions including the Arvon, Ledbury and TLS, and published pamphlets with Smith/Doorstop, Vennel Press and HappenStance. His first collection Counting Eggs appeared from Mulfran Press (Cardiff)...

9th May – Moniza Alvi, Dani Redd, Sharlene Teo

Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. Her collections include The Country at My Shoulder (1993), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread poetry prizes and selected for the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation Poets’ promotion), Europa...

11th January – Preti Taneja, Nicola Daly

      Preti Taneja began writing fiction in 2010, inspired by her work as a reporter, filmmaker and activist in the field of human rights. She has worked with people fleeing conflict in Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Rwanda and Kenya among other places and her...