Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and has lived in Nottingham since 1985. He runs the poetry publisher Leafe Press a...

Jerry Gabriel 's first novel, Deserters , was published in May 2026 (Acre Books). He is the author of two collections of stories, The Le...

Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability poetry anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/d...

Recently, our popular review blog, Everybody’s Reviewing , passed one and a half million readers. To celebrate this milestone, Everybody’s R...

  By Anna Walsh I started writing poems as a creative outlet when my children were small, and I occasionally performed them at spoken word e...

  Linda Anderson is Emeritus Professor of English at Newcastle University where she founded the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (200...

  Catherine Tudish is the author of the novel American Cream and the story collection Tenney’s Landing . She has taught writing and literat...