Stevan Alcock is a writer, editor and translator. A born and raised Yorkshireman, his debut novel Blood Relatives has received widespread critical acclaim. The Guardian described it as ‘refreshing, even radical’, The Times said it is ‘written with a daring and assurance’. Blood Relatives was longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize and is currently shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.
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Irenosen Okojie has been named by writer Ben Okri as an exciting talent to watch. In 2016, she published her short story collection Speak Gigantular and won a Betty Trask Award for her novel Butterfly Fish. Her writing has been published in literary journal Kwani?, magazine Phati’tude and newspapers The Guardian and The Observer.
Irenosenokojie.com / @IrenosenOkojie
David Kessler is a writer of thrillers and other books, published by Hodder, HarperCollins and more recently for the Kindle. His most recent books - written under the pen-name Adam Palmer - are conspiracy thrillers, linking history with modern events. He also writes legal thrillers under his own name. His most recent book COLD TURKEY - written under the pen-name "Dave" - is about a pair of drug-addicts who kidnap a right-wing shock-jock and get him addicted to heroin in revenge for disparaging comments he made about drug addicts on his radio programme.
http://davidkesslerauthor.com/
Tom Tomaszewski grew up in south London and works as a psychotherapist specialising in addiction. His father came from a family of dissenting Polish patriots. His aunt died in Auschwitz and his grandfather was regularly prosecuted for writing an anti-Prussian column ‘Polish Fire’. The Eleventh Letter is a story about desire, ghosts and trying to change the past.
tomtomaszewski.com / @tbt_tom
