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Sharon Telfer

Sharon Telfer (2018)

Sharon Telfer grew up on Teesside and now lives in East Yorkshire. Her creative writing took off in 2015 when she discovered flash fiction. Her flash fiction has since been widely published and has won prizes, including the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her stories often have a loose historical setting and she’s influenced by magical realism and fairytale, where the strange and the everyday collide.

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Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner (2017)

Andrew Turner lives in Bolton and he has been writing for over ten years, primarily for theatre and radio. Writing provides him with much needed respite from his job as a Social Worker. In 2006 Andrew won 2nd Prize in the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award and was in the final five for the BBC Writers Award 2015.

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Shash Trevett

Shash Trevett (2016)

Shash Trevett is a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape from the civil war; she now lives in York. Her poems have been published in journals, most notably Modern Poetry in Translation, and her work was used by the artist Alec Finlay, in conjunction with the National Trust/Arts Council, as part of his First World War Commemoration.

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Julian Turner

Julian Turner (2014)

Julian Turner was selected as one of 10 Anvil new poets in 2000 and his first collection, Crossing the Outskirts, was published by Anvil in 2002. This was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection Prize and was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. He is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Leeds University.

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Steve Timms

Steve Timms (2015)

Steve Timms was born in Oldham and studied theatre at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of several plays including Detox Mansion (24-7 Festival), Temp/Casual (Contact Theatre) and American Beer (BBC Radio 4). He is a recipient of the Peggy Ramsay award.

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Jane Thomas

Jane Thomas (2010)

Jane Thomas lives and writes in the countryside deep in Northumberland. She graduated from the creative writing MA programme of Northumbria University in 2001, since when she has taught creative writing in the community as well as developing her own work. She works primarily in prose and is currently engaged on a full-length historical novel set in 1910.

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