After obtaining his degree in English and Drama, Dr Anthony Roberts became a car park attendant. Eventually he ended up promoting bands and comedy. In 1991 he arrived in Colchester to take on the role of director at Colchester Arts Centre. In 2015 he was invited to act as interim manager at the award-winning Firstsite Gallery in Colchester. Now back at...
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Valerio Varesi was born in Turin. He became a journalist and is currently working at La Repubblica newspaper. He is the author of 16 crime novels starring Commissario Soneri. River of shadows was nominated for the prestigious Italian prize ‘Strega’ and also for the Gold Dagger award in Britain. The books about gourmet Commissario Soneri have been...
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Margaret is a poet, copywriter and journalist based in Plymouth, Devon. Her articles have been published widely online, including in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Cosmopolitan, and Narratively. Her poems have appeared in Red Wedge and as part of WonderZoo’s online anthologies. She is a member of the Etherpoems digital poetry...
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Wersha Bharadwa is an award-nominated journalist with features published in The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, Glamour and Cosmopolitan. She was the first British Indian staff writer for Cosmopolitan magazine UK . She is the recipient of an Arts Council England award for her debut novel and play. Her first full length play, ‘I Go Home Now’ was...
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Christine De Luca lives in Edinburgh. She writes in English and Shetlandic, her mother tongue. She was appointed Edinburgh’s Makar (poet laureate) for 2014-2017. Besides several children’s stories (in Shetlandic) and one novel, she has had seven poetry collections and four bi-lingual volumes published (French, Italian, Icelandic and Norwegian) and...
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