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Sean Williams
Sean Williams was born in Australia in 1967. He started reading science fiction at an early age and began writing his own genre short stories when he was ten years old. His parents were teachers (his father later became an Anglican priest) and that meant a lot of moving around, although...
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Chris Priestley
Chris Priestley was born in Hull, and has lived in Wales and Gibraltar. As a nine-year-old, he won a prize in a story-writing competition, which first gave him the idea of writing for a living. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to be a political cartoonist, publishing his...
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Serena Patel
Serena Patel is a part-time law firm training co-ordinator and mum of two. She was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize in 2017 and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology in 2018. She is also a member of the Golden Egg Academy and SCWBI. Her debut children's s...
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Shane Hegarty
Shane Hegarty was the Arts Editor of the Irish Times but left to write full time in 2013 when he secured a publishing contract for Darkmouth with HarperCollins alongside record-breaking publishing deals in the US, Germany, Brazil and more. He lives on the east coast of Ireland in a...
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Sharon Dogar
Sharon Dogar, author of Waves and Falling, was born in 1962 just outside Oxford, where she now lives with her husband and three children. Among her favourite books are To Kill a Mockingbird, Skellig and Where the Wild Things Are. As well as an author, Dogar is a social worker who counsels trou...
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Chris Mould
Chris Mould left school aged 16 and went straight to art school where he was inspired by illustrators such as George Cruikshank, Ralph Steadman and Ronald Searle. He did a variety of part-time jobs, from delivering papers to washing up and cooking in a kitchen, and decided to become a f...
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Sharon Gosling
Sharon Gosling always wanted to be a writer. She started as an entertainment journalist, writing about television series such as Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. Her first novel was published under a pen name in 2010. Sharon and her husband live in a very small cottage in a very remote villa...
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Chris MacGregor
"I am currently the Commanding Officer of The Royal Wessex Yeomanry, the UK's Armoured Reserve. I have two children, Ellie and Ben. Before I departed for a tour of Iraq, I recorded a story for them so that they could hear my voice whenever they wished. They missed me very much. Fortunately, th...
