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Karen Powell

Karen Powell (2017)

Karen left school at 16 and worked in aimless fashion for a number of years before getting herself together enough to take A levels at evening classes. She was then lucky enough to gain a place to read English at Lucy Cavendish College, the only all-female college for mature students at Cambridge University, and life improved exponentially.

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Sophie Parkes

Sophie Parkes (2017)

Sophie Parkes lives in Mossley, Greater Manchester, where she runs a community writing group. Her passion for folk and traditional music fuels her fiction writing and she is currently working on a collection of short stories based on or influenced by English folk song.

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Jayshree Patel

Jayshree Patel (2016)

Having worked in education for all her working life, Jayshree started to yearn for exploring her creativity through other means and joined an established script-writing group last year. She is new to writing, and very much developing, but finds it a joy to be able to tell stories that perhaps somebody may want to hear.

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Mark Pajak

Mark Pajak (2016)

Mark Pajak was born in Merseyside. His work has been published in Magma, The North and The Rialto, been short-listed for the Bridport Prize, highly commended in the Buzzwords Cheltenham Poetry Competition and The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition.

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Phoebe Power

Phoebe Power (2014)

Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and is now based near Penrith in Cumbria. In 2009 she was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and in 2012 received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Her poems have appeared in magazines including POEM, Magma, Orbis and Cake. She was highly commended in the 2013-14 Faber New Poets pamphlet scheme and is currently apprentice poet in residence at Ilkley Literature Festival.

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Eileen Pun

Eileen Pun (2015)

Eileen Pun was born in New York, and now lives in Grasmere, Cumbria where she works as a freelance writer, poet and artist. Her poetry has been published in various anthologies, most recently, Ten: The New Wave, Bloodaxe Books (2014).

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Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley (2001)

Jacob Polley has published four books of poems, winning the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for his fourth, Jackself. He also won the 2010 Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Talk of the Town, and the 2012 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Havocs.

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