Authors
Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for 25 years and considers himself an adopted Geordie, though he still can’t speak the language. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for 16 years. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. His first novel, The Man on the Street, which is set in his home city, was published in March 2020 and has been long-listed for the CWA John Creasey Dagger and selected by Val McDermid for the Theakston’s Crime Festival New Blood panel. The sequel, One Way Street, is released on e-book in October and hardback in March 2021.
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Fiona Shaw is a Northern-based writer, the author of a memoir and four novels. Her 1950s novel Tell it to the Bees was adapted for film, starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger. Her most recent book, the YA dystopic novel, Outwalkers, is about a gang of children trying to escape out of a ferociously bordered England. Outwalkers was Carnegie-nominated and shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. Fiona also teaches Creative Writing at Northumbria University.
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Rob Parker is a married father of three, who lives in Warrington, UK. The author of the Ben Bracken thrillers, Crook’s Hollow and the Audible bestseller Far From The Tree, he enjoys a rural life on an old pig farm (now minus pigs), writing horrible things between school runs. Rob writes full time, attends various author events across the UK, and boxes regularly for charity.
He spends a lot of time in schools across the North, encouraging literacy, story-telling and creative-writing, and somehow squeezes in time to co-host the For Your Reconsideration film podcast, appear regularly on The Blood Brothers Crime Podcast, and is a member of the Northern Crime Syndicate.
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He spends a lot of time in schools across the North, encouraging literacy, story-telling and creative-writing, and somehow squeezes in time to co-host the For Your Reconsideration film podcast, appear regularly on The Blood Brothers Crime Podcast, and is a member of the Northern Crime Syndicate.
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Michael Cawood Green is a novelist, Professor in English and Creative Writing at Northumbria University UK, and a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the author of Novel Histories: Past, Present, and Future in South African Fiction and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He has published two works of historical fiction, Sinking and For the Sake of Silence, winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize. His latest novel, The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong (2019), which was completed under the auspices of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, is published by Goldsmiths Press/MIT Press. He is chair of the interdisciplinary Northumbria Practice Research Group, and is currently writing a work of creative non-fiction in which a recent migrant to the UK attempts to negotiate ideas of Africanness and Englishness through recreating places linked by a now-controversial statue in a Northumberland town commemorating the death of a local officer killed in the Anglo-Boer War.
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Guest Appearance
Safron Mitchelson lives in Northumberland and is a talented crafter. She has been a bookcrosser (Safrolistics) for many years and some may recognise her from the above photo taken at the Nottingham Unconvention.
During this years event she will be teaching us how to do paper cutting and, hopefully, help us to make some fantastic creations. Sounds fun!
During this years event she will be teaching us how to do paper cutting and, hopefully, help us to make some fantastic creations. Sounds fun!