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Jude Brown

Jude Brown (2013)

Jude Brown has an MA in writing from Sheffield Hallam University, and has had a varied career to date, including working as a nurse, tutor, designer, and art therapist. Her fiction has appeared in several anthologies, and in 2011 she was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition. Originally from Durham, she now lives in Sheffield.

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Kathleen Bainbridge Moran

Kathleen Bainbridge Moran (2015)

Kathleen Bainbridge Moran was the runner-up for the 2014 Flambard Prize. Her poems have been published in The Journal and The Rialto and her sequence, ‘Looking for Lorca’, for ‘The Poetics of the Archive’ project, appears on the Bloodaxe archive website. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University in 2013, graduating with distinction.

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David Borrott

David Borrott (2015)

David Borrott has an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University. His pamphlet Porthole was published by smith|doorstop in June 2015. He lives with his partner and their three sons in Lancashire.

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Vik Banks

Vik Banks (2016)

Vik Banks cares about art and fighting exploitation and making time to do what gives you joy. Wrangling words is a joy-giver and she is trying to do more of it, experimenting with both adult and children’s fiction. Brave Enough is her first children’s novel.

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Deborah Buchan

Deborah Buchan (2016)

Deborah Buchan was born in Newcastle and now lives in Northumberland. Her working life began in Theatre-in-Education where she worked as an actor, director and writer. She has written a novel for young people which was informed by her work in hostels, refuge and residential care.

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Paul Bodie

Paul Bodie (2005)

Paul Bodie was born in Glasgow but has lived in Newcastle for the past 15 years. He won a Northern Promise Awards in 2005, which helped to support him develop his first novel, Mugs.

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Colette Bryce

Colette Bryce (2011)

Colette Bryce is the author of four poetry collections with Picador, including The Whole and Rain-domed Universe (2014). Selected Poems, drawing on all her books, is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation 2017. Originally from Derry, N.Ireland, Colette has lived in the North East since 2005.

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Celia Bryce

Celia Bryce (2006)

Celia is a singer songwriter and won a Time to Write Award in 2006 which gave her some space to work on her young adult novel. This was published in 2013 by Bloomsbury. She lives in Tyneside.

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Chaz Brenchley

Chaz Brenchley (2005,2000)

Chaz Brenchley has been making a living as a writer since he was eighteen. He is the author of nine thrillers, most recently Shelter and two fantasy series, The Books of Outremer and Selling Water by the River. As Daniel Fox he has published a Chinese-based fantasy series, beginning with Dragon in Chains, as Ben Macallan, an urban fantasy, Desdæmona.

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Joanna Boulter

Joanna Boulter (2002)

Joanna Boulter's poetry has earned her a Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship from Northern Arts, a Northern Promise Award, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. Joanna’s first full-length poetry collection, Twenty Four Preludesand Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich (Arc, 2006) takes the form of a long sequence based on the life of the Russian composer and was nominated for the Forward Best First Collection Prize in 2007.

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Bob Beagrie

Bob Beagrie (2003)

Bob Beagrie is a poet, playwright and senior lecturer in creative writing at Teesside University and has performed at numerous festivals and venues internationally. Publications include Huggin & Muninn, Endeavour: Newfound Notes, Yoik, The Seer Sung Husband, Glass Characters, and KIDS, a collaboratively written pamphlet with Andy Willoughby. His work has appeared in various anthologies and journals including The Forward Book of Poetry 2009.

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Peter Bennet

Peter Bennet (2011,2004)

Peter Bennet has published seven books of poetry and seven pamphlet collections. He has been a prize-winner in the National and the Arvon International poetry competitions and the Basil Bunting Awards. He was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2008.

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Niel Bushnell

Niel Bushnell (2011)

Niel Bushnell is a writer and artist from Hartlepool, Teesside. His first novel, a children’s fantasy adventure called Sorrowline, won a Northern Promise award at the Northern Writers Awards 2011. The award helped clinch a two-book publishing deal with Andersen Press for Sorrowline and its sequel, Timesmith. Rights to both have also been sold in Germany and Brazil.

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