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Chris Power ’s short story collection Mothers (Faber & Faber) was published in 2018. His column, “A Brief Survey of the Short Story” has appeared in The Guardian since 2007. He has written for the BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New Statesman. His fiction has been published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and White Review, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He lives with his family in London. https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/abriefsurveyoftheshortstory @chris_power
Cal Revely-Calder is a writer and editor based in London.
Adam Roberts was born in England and has lived in Paris for over 20 years. He is the editor of the Invisible Paris online resource and author of the Paris Cityscopes guide (Reaktion Books, 2017). He was the Paris contributor to the World Atlas of Street Food (Thames & Hudson, 2017), and has collaborated with numerous media sources including the Guardian, Irish Times, and CNN. http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com/
Nicholas Rombes, a professor of English at the University of Detroit Mercy, is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio, 2014) and director of the film The Removals (2016). A revised, second edition of his book Cinema in the Digital Age was published in 2017. In 2018 he was a keynote speaker at the International Cinema in the Digital Age Conference in Tehran, Iran. https://thehappinessengine.net/ @Requiem102
C.D. Rose is the editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure (Melville House, 2014) and author of Who’s Who When Everyone’s Someone Else (Melville House, 2018). His short fiction has appeared in Gorse, The Lonely Crowd, and Lighthouse magazines, as well as Best British Short Stories 2018 (Salt). Originally from Manchester, he is now at home anywhere there are dark bars, dusty libraries and good second-hand bookshops. @cdrose_writer
Lee Rourke is the author of three novels, The Canal (Melville House Press, 2010), Vulgar Things (Fourth Estate, 2014) and Glitch (Dead Ink, 2019), as well as two poetry collections, Varroa Destructor (3:AM Press, 2013) and Vantablack (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019). @LeeRourke
Nicholas Royle is the author of three short story collections — Mortality (Serpent’s Tail, 2006), Ornithology (Confingo Publishing, 2017) and The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories (The Swan River Press, 2018) — and seven novels, most recently First Novel (Jonathan Cape, 2013). Reader in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press and is head judge of the Manchester Fiction Prize. http://www.nicholasroyle.com/# @nicholasroyle
Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Little Island Press, 2019) and The Dominant Animal (Little Island Press, 2019, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020). Her stories have appeared in NOON, Fence, Granta, and Egress. She lives in Los Angeles. @K_Scanlan_
Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from Merseyside now based in London. His writing has featured in Sight & Sound, Little White Lies and The Quietus. He runs the website, Celluloid Wicker Man,and completed his PhD at Goldsmiths University in 2018. In 2015, he worked with Robert Macfarlane on a short adaptation of his Sunday Times bestseller, Holloway. His books include Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange (Auteur, 2017), Mothlight (Influx Press, 2019) and How Pale the Winter Has Made Us (Influx Press, 2020). https://celluloidwickerman.com/ @adams-covell
Fernando Sdrigotti was born in Rosario, Argentina. His writing in English and Spanish has been widely published in print and online. His books include Dysfunctional Males (LCG Editores, 2017), Shitstorm (Open Pen, 2018), Departure Lounge Music (LCG Editores 2018) and Grey Tropic (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019; co-authored with Martin Dean). He lives in London. https://www.fernando-sdrigotti.com/ @f_sd
Will Self is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and broadcasting personality. He is the author of eleven novels, five collections of short stories, three novellas, and five collections of non-fiction. His work has been translated into 22 languages. Umbrella (2012) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. https://will-self.com/ @wself
Richard Skinner is a writer working across fiction, life-writing, essays, non-fiction and poetry. He has published three novels with Faber & Faber, three books of non-fiction and three books of poetry. His work has been nominated for several prizes and is published in eight languages. Richard is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. https://richardskinner.weebly.com/ @RichardNSkinner
Christiana Spens is the author of several books, including Death of a Ladies’ Man (3:AM Press, 2012), Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR (Repeater Books, 2016) and The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She read Philosophy at Cambridge and earned her PhD in International Relations at St. Andrews. She currently writes on art and politics for Art Quarterly, Studio International, Prospect and other publications. https://www.christiana-spens.com/ @ChristianaSpens
H.P. Tinker is a Manchester-based short story writer and author of The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (Social Disease, 2007) and The Girl Who Ate New York (East London Press, 2015). His fiction has appeared in Ambit, 3:AM Magazine, Best British Short Stories, The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, and several other places. He is slightly older than he used to be.
Dylan Trigg is an FWF Lise Meitner Senior Fellow at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy. He has previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Memphis, University College Dublin, and Husserl Archives, École Normale Supérieure. Trigg is the author of several books, including: Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety (Bloomsbury, 2016); The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror (Zero Books, 2014); and The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Ohio University Press, 2012). With Dorothée Legrand, he is co-editor of Unconsciousness Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Springer, 2017). Trigg’s works have been translated into French, German, and Russian. http://www.dylantrigg.com/
Laura Waddell is a publisher and writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her writing has featured in publications including the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, McSweeney’s, 3:AM Magazine, and the books Nasty Women, Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class, and The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online. She sits on the board of Scottish PEN and Gutter Magazine. https://lauraewaddell.com/ @lauraewaddell
Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist. Their books include Gaudy Bauble (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017) which was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, and Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (ed., Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). Waidner’s articles, essays and short fiction have appeared in journals including 3:AM Magazine, Cambridge Literary Review, Configurations, Gorse, The Happy Hypocrite, Minor Literature[s] and The Quietus. They are the curator of the reading series Queers Read This at the Institute for Contemporary Art, and a lecturer at Roehampton University, London. @isabelwaidner
Joanna Walsh is the author of seven books. The latest, Break.up (2018), is published by Semiotext(e). https://badaude.wixsite.com/joannawalsh @badaude
Stuart Walton is a cultural historian, novelist and book critic. His publications include In the Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling (Zero Books, 2016); Introducing Theodor Adorno (Zero Books, 2017); A Natural History of Human Emotions (Dean Street Press, 2016); Intoxicology: A Cultural History of Drink and Drugs (second edition, Dean Street Press, 2016); a monograph on the chilli pepper, The Devil’s Dinner (St Martin’s Press, 2018); and a novel, The First Day in Paradise (Roundfire, 2016). He has written widely on food and drink, and is a past chairman of the Circle of Wine Writers. @StuartWalton1
Will Wiles is a writer on architecture. He is the author of three novels: Care of Wooden Floors (4th Estate, 2012) which won a Betty Trask Award, The Way Inn (4th Estate, 2014), shortlisted for the Encore Award, and Plume (4th Estate, 2019), a hallucinatory vision of contemporary London, the city where he lives. @WillWiles
Eley Williams ’ collection of prose ,Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press, 2017),was awarded both
the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With stories anthologised in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin Classics, 2018), Liberating the Canon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018) and Not Here: A Queer Anthology of Loneliness (Pilot Press, 2017), she is a recent Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and was granted Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature. She teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London and is co-editor for fiction at 3:AM Magazine. http://www.eleywilliams.com/ @GiantRatSumatra
Jeffrey Zuckerman is a New York-based translator of French novels, from Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins (Les Fugitives, 2016) to Jean-Jacques Schuhl’s Dusty Pink (Semiotext(e), 2018). He has contributed to the New Republic, Paris Review Daily, White Review and VICE. His titles have been shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Albertine Prize, and he has been awarded the CLMP Firecracker Award and a French Voices grant for his translations. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the short stories of Hervé Guibert. @J_Zuckerman
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