Jan has been teaching Creative Writing since 1989. She founded Creative Ink for Writers in 2000, providing group tutorials and assessing the work of writers.

Sue Johnson is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Her short stories appear in a variety of women’s magazines in the UK and Australia.

Mary is very experienced, both as a teacher and a writer. She teaches Creative Writing at Adult Education classes and also has taught English to Foreign Students for many years.

Creative writing tutor Sandra runs a writing group and mentors writers on a one-to-one basis. She offers proofreading and critiquing services, organises short story competitions, and is editor of a...

Diana is an award-winning journalist, who trained as a newspaper reporter from the age of sixteen and was Women’s Editor on provincial daily newspapers.

James McCreet is the author of ten novels, four of which have been published. Plus, a guide for first-time novelists, describing the process of research and planning.

Stephanie has had over eighty children’s books published, plus a historical novella for adults, since her first success in the 1980s.

Michelle has been a freelance writer since 1995 when she sold her first article to Best of British. She writes about a wide range of subjects including history and heritage, travel, homes and...

Amy Sparkes writes humorous and magical fiction for children of all ages and is published by Penguin Random House, Egmont, Scholastic and HarperCollins.

Susan can’t remember a time when she wasn’t working on an idea for a new story or book. An author since the late Eighties, and a full time freelance writer since 2000, these days she has also added...

Valerie became a published author when she won Writing Magazine’s Annual Ghost Story Competition in 2002 with Three Squashed Pumpkins.

Lynne has been writing and selling words for over 30 years now. Her main expertise is in short stories, especially for the womag market, but she has dabbled in all sorts of writing. Lynne has sold...

Stuart’s writing career spans twenty years, largely in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror (with the occasional foray into romance and other genres), with short stories published in...

Lesley is the author of The Wartime Bookshop series, published by Bantam in hardback and by Penguin in paperback. She has a number of other successful novels to her credit and has also sold many...

Colin Bulman works part-time as a teacher of English language and literature and as a teacher of creative writing and journalism. He has also taught Media.

A former diplomat and civil servant, is a columnist for Writing Magazine. His ongoing series 'How to write like…' examines what new writers can learn from bestselling authors.