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Derek Neale, the editor, is an award-winning fiction writer and dramatist. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. Emma Claire Sweeney is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University. She has been Writer in Residence at Mencap and co-directs The Ruppin Agency Writers' Studio.
Emma's novel, Owl Song at Dawn, won Nudge Book of the Year (Literary Category), and her group biography, A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf, co-written with Emily Midorikawa, was praised by Margaret Atwood for having "done much service to literary history." Emma has received awards from the Society of Authors, Arts Council, and Royal Literary Fund, and has written for publications including The Paris Review, TIME, and The Washington Post. Siobhán Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. She holds degrees in Literature and Creative Writing from Lancaster University and University College Dublin. She has served as Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and as Associate Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University London. Her six poetry collections include Heat Signature and Cross-Talk (Seren Books). Her awards include the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, Irish Poem of the Year (2021), and prizes in The Troubadour, Michael Marks, and the National Poetry Competition. |
