Mike Barlow
Mike Barlow is a visual artist and poet who has lived in Lancaster for over 30 years. His poetry has
won a number of prizes, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition. His pamphlet 'Amicable Numbers' was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and his third collection 'Charmed Lives' was published in 2012.
Some of his poems can be found at www.mikebarlow.org.uk; www.poetrypf.co.uk; and on the walls of Lancaster City Library.
Dinesh Allirajah
Dinesh Allirajah is a short story writer, poet and lecturer, based in Liverpool. Co-founded Liverpool’s Asian Voices Asian Lives writers and performers’ collective, and has performed and given workshops around Europe, in Bangladesh and Nigeria. Short story publications: A Manner Of Speaking (Spike, 2004); The Prisoners/Overnight (Lancaster Litfest, 2011: Flax #023); stories and poetry in several
anthologies, as well as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Lectures in Creative Writing at UCLAN and Edge Hill University.
Blog: http://realtimeshortstories.wordpress.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPJAeZMebfY
Kim Moore
Kim Moore's first pamphlet 'If We Could Speak Like Wolves' was published in 2012 as one of the winners in the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and works part time as a peripatetic brass teacher for Cumbria Music Service.
David Tait
David Tait was born in Lancaster in 1985 and has spent time in Leeds, Thailand, Suffolk and The Lake District, where he now lives and works as a Catering Manager in a youth hostel. He is General Editor for online youth magazine The Cadaverine, and is a member of Chapman & Scarecrow - a group that organises independent press festivals throughout the country. He is also currently House Poet for the Carol Ann Duffy & Friends Poetry Series at Manchester Royal Exchange.
http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/index.php/david-tait
Carole Coates
Carole Coates began her career as an academic and spent many years developing Creative Writing to degree, MA and Ph.D level, working with poets like Carole Ann Duffy. She has published three collections - all with Shoestring Press: "The Goodbye Edition" 2005, "Looking Good" 2009 and "Swallowing Stones 2012. Neil Curry has said of "Swallowing Stones" - "I have never read anything like it. It is an outstanding combination of imagination and intellect". Originally a Londoner, she has lived in Lancaster for several years. Also see www.carolecoates.org.uk
Ron Scowcroft
Poet, joint first prizewinner, the McLellan Poetry Competition (2013), Highly Commended in The Yorkshire Open (2012) and by Magma (2011), published in the Ver Poets prize anthology (2013) and by Templar: Peloton (2013) prize anthology and Snap (2010) prize anthology. Two poems shortlisted for the 2013 National Poetry Prize, longlisted for the Strokestown International poetry Competition (2012) and for the Bridport Prize.
http://ronscowcroft.co.uk
Elizabeth Burns
Elizabeth Burns' most recent collection of poetry is Held (Polygon, 2010), which includes the award-winning sequence 'The Shortest Days'. Her writing often explores local landscapes and history and includes a Litfest-commissioned Poetry Walk in the area round Lancaster Castle, and the words for Fisuure, a 3-day performance piece which took place on Ingleborough.
www.elizabethburnspoetry.co.uk
Jane Routh
Jane Routh has published three collections of poetry, and has won the Poetry Business Competition and been shortlisted for a Forward prize. She’s also received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Academi Cardiff and Strokestown International Poetry Competitions. She contributes reviews and non-fiction to several journals.
A former photography lecturer, Jane has lived near Lancaster for forty years, planting trees and keeping geese for the last twenty.
http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/jane-routh
Andrew McMillan Andrew McMillan was born in 1988. He now lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. His work has been published in print and online journals and a debut pamphlet,every salt advance, was published in 2009 by Red Squirrel Press. A second pamphlet, ’ the moon is a supporting player’, was published by Red Squirrel Press in October 2011 and a selection of his poet can be found in the seminal new anthology The Salt Book of Younger Poets as well as in Best British Poetry 2013 .A new pamphlet length poem, ‘protest of the physical’, was published by Red Squirrel Press in late 2013. He is currently working on a first collection.
http://andrewmcmillanpoet.tumblr.com/
Sarah Hymas
Sarah Hymas lives by Morecambe Bay and online at sarahhymas.net. Her collection Host is published by Waterloo Press. Her pamphlet Lune was featured in the Guardian 2013. She is a Hawthornden Fellow.
Mike Barlow is a visual artist and poet who has lived in Lancaster for over 30 years. His poetry has
won a number of prizes, including first prize in the National Poetry Competition. His pamphlet 'Amicable Numbers' was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and his third collection 'Charmed Lives' was published in 2012.
Some of his poems can be found at www.mikebarlow.org.uk; www.poetrypf.co.uk; and on the walls of Lancaster City Library.
Dinesh Allirajah
Dinesh Allirajah is a short story writer, poet and lecturer, based in Liverpool. Co-founded Liverpool’s Asian Voices Asian Lives writers and performers’ collective, and has performed and given workshops around Europe, in Bangladesh and Nigeria. Short story publications: A Manner Of Speaking (Spike, 2004); The Prisoners/Overnight (Lancaster Litfest, 2011: Flax #023); stories and poetry in several
anthologies, as well as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Lectures in Creative Writing at UCLAN and Edge Hill University.
Blog: http://realtimeshortstories.wordpress.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPJAeZMebfY
Kim Moore
Kim Moore's first pamphlet 'If We Could Speak Like Wolves' was published in 2012 as one of the winners in the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and works part time as a peripatetic brass teacher for Cumbria Music Service.
David Tait
David Tait was born in Lancaster in 1985 and has spent time in Leeds, Thailand, Suffolk and The Lake District, where he now lives and works as a Catering Manager in a youth hostel. He is General Editor for online youth magazine The Cadaverine, and is a member of Chapman & Scarecrow - a group that organises independent press festivals throughout the country. He is also currently House Poet for the Carol Ann Duffy & Friends Poetry Series at Manchester Royal Exchange.
http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/index.php/david-tait
Carole Coates
Carole Coates began her career as an academic and spent many years developing Creative Writing to degree, MA and Ph.D level, working with poets like Carole Ann Duffy. She has published three collections - all with Shoestring Press: "The Goodbye Edition" 2005, "Looking Good" 2009 and "Swallowing Stones 2012. Neil Curry has said of "Swallowing Stones" - "I have never read anything like it. It is an outstanding combination of imagination and intellect". Originally a Londoner, she has lived in Lancaster for several years. Also see www.carolecoates.org.uk
Ron Scowcroft
Poet, joint first prizewinner, the McLellan Poetry Competition (2013), Highly Commended in The Yorkshire Open (2012) and by Magma (2011), published in the Ver Poets prize anthology (2013) and by Templar: Peloton (2013) prize anthology and Snap (2010) prize anthology. Two poems shortlisted for the 2013 National Poetry Prize, longlisted for the Strokestown International poetry Competition (2012) and for the Bridport Prize.
http://ronscowcroft.co.uk
Elizabeth Burns
Elizabeth Burns' most recent collection of poetry is Held (Polygon, 2010), which includes the award-winning sequence 'The Shortest Days'. Her writing often explores local landscapes and history and includes a Litfest-commissioned Poetry Walk in the area round Lancaster Castle, and the words for Fisuure, a 3-day performance piece which took place on Ingleborough.
www.elizabethburnspoetry.co.uk
Jane Routh
Jane Routh has published three collections of poetry, and has won the Poetry Business Competition and been shortlisted for a Forward prize. She’s also received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Academi Cardiff and Strokestown International Poetry Competitions. She contributes reviews and non-fiction to several journals.
A former photography lecturer, Jane has lived near Lancaster for forty years, planting trees and keeping geese for the last twenty.
http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/jane-routh
Andrew McMillan Andrew McMillan was born in 1988. He now lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. His work has been published in print and online journals and a debut pamphlet,every salt advance, was published in 2009 by Red Squirrel Press. A second pamphlet, ’ the moon is a supporting player’, was published by Red Squirrel Press in October 2011 and a selection of his poet can be found in the seminal new anthology The Salt Book of Younger Poets as well as in Best British Poetry 2013 .A new pamphlet length poem, ‘protest of the physical’, was published by Red Squirrel Press in late 2013. He is currently working on a first collection.
http://andrewmcmillanpoet.tumblr.com/
Sarah Hymas
Sarah Hymas lives by Morecambe Bay and online at sarahhymas.net. Her collection Host is published by Waterloo Press. Her pamphlet Lune was featured in the Guardian 2013. She is a Hawthornden Fellow.