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KB Jacobs

KB Jacobs (2021)

KB Jacobs trained as an actress at LAMDA. She most recently played Hermione in Erica Whyman's production of The Winter's Tale at the RSC.

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Gaynor Jones

Gaynor Jones (2020)

Gaynor Jones is a writer and performer currently based in Oldham. She has won the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award and was named Northern Writer of the Year at the 2018 Northern Soul Awards.

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Catharine Johnson

Catharine Johnson (2019)

Catharine Johnson spent her childhood curled up with a book under her father’s desk, in school libraries in Malaysia and Kent. She spent 25 years as a doctor, in jobs with the Navy, the RAF, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and the NHS, including 18 years as a GP in Cumbria.

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Freya Jackson

Freya Jackson (2019)

Freya Jackson is a writer from Leeds. Her poetry has previously been published in places including Magma, Arc Magazine, The Cadaverine and The Interpreter’s House. Her poem ‘Cowardice’ was Ink Sweat and Tears’ poem of the month for August 2017.

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Sally Jubb

Sally Jubb (2015)

Sally Jubb read Drama and English At Goldsmiths College, London. She returned to the sea and her home town of Scarborough in 2001. Since 2015 her stories have been shortlisted and placed in various competitions and appeared in several anthologies. She won The Colm Toibin Short Story Award (2017).

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A. B. Jackson

A. B. Jackson (2016)

A.B. Jackson was born in Glasgow and raised in the village of Bramhall, Cheshire. His first book, Fire Stations (Anvil), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2003, and Apocrypha (Donut Press) was the Poetry Book Society’s Pamphlet Choice for summer 2011. His most recent collection, The Wilderness Party (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Romi Jones

Romi Jones (2007)

Romi Jones writes fiction and facilitates creative writing with community groups. Recent achievements include: Arts Council grant to create an installation ‘outer places, inner voices’ with local sound artist; Winston Churchill travel fellowship to USA/Canada researching arts and older people, Northern Promise Award; MA in Creative Writing.

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Rebecca Jenkins

Rebecca Jenkins (2004)

Rebecca Jenkins is a cultural historian, novelist and biographer. Her biography of 19th century actress Fanny Kemble, The Reluctant Celebrity, was short-listed for the 2005 Theatre Book Prize, and her social history, The First London Olympics, 1908, was long-listed for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year Award. The Duke’s Agent is the first of her FR Jarrett mysteries, set in the north east of England during Regency times.

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Avril Joy

Avril Joy (2003)

Avril Joy is a novelist and short story writer, winner of the 2012 Costa Short Story Award. Her latest novel, Sometimes a River Song, is published by the women only Linen Press.

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Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Carolyn Jess-Cooke (2016,2013,2008)

Carolyn's debut novel, The Guardian Angel’s Journal, was published in the UK & Commonweath by Piatkus/Little, Brown as their 2011 superlead title and immediately hit the Bookseller’s Heatseeker’s chart. A second novel, The Boy Who Could See Demons, was published in the UK, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands in 2012.

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