Tim Clare

Tim Clare

Tim is a writer, stand-up poet and musician, who performs all over the UK. His book about thwarted ambition, We Can’t All Be Astronauts, is due out from Ebury Press in mid-2009. He has written for The Guardian and The Times, presented the Channel 4 series ‘How To Get A Book Deal’, and has appeared on Radio 1 and 2. He is a regular performer at many festivals including Glastonbury, Leeds and Reading, and Latitude.

Links: Tim’s new book, Tim’s myspace page,

Article: Everyone does not have a novel inside them

Helen Mort

Helen Mort

Helen was born in Sheffield in 1985. She lives in Cambridge, where she teaches creative writing for the Open University. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition, Helen’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies including Tower Poetry, The Rialto and Poetry London. Her pamphlet, the shape of every box, was published by Tall-Lighthouse in 2007; the same year she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Helen has performed her work at the Ledbury Festival, at StAnza in Scotland, at the Oxford Literary Festival and in Buckingham Palace.

Links: Man Walks into a Bar , The Word for Snow Article: What Sparks a Poem?

Molly Naylor

Molly Naylor

Molly Naylor is a scriptwriter, puppeteer and poet. She works as a performer for The Flying Buttresses theatre company (www.hodmanandsally.com) and has written and directed several shows performed on the London Fringe. She is currently writing a radio play for the BBC, as well as working on her first spoken word show: There Will Be Glamour.

Molly’s MySpace

Dean Parkin

Dean was born in 1969 and left school at the age of sixteen to work at a printers and then in a bookshop. He currently works for The Poetry Trust and The Rialto poetry magazine. An experienced performer, he has given

Dean Parkin

many readings across the UK and has recently collaborated with jazz pianist Maurice Horhut in the The Poet & Piano Man Show. Since March 2007 he has been poet-in-residence on the Roy Waller Show on BBC Radio Norfolk, and his second pamphlet, Just Our Luck, was published by The Garlic Press in March 2008.

Links: Dean’s website, The Bridge

Hannah Walker

Hannah Walker

Hannah is a poet who lives in Norwich and works for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival delivering Creative Partnerships in Norfolk schools. She has performed at Latitude and Truck festival and was long listed for the Bridport prize 2006. Her acerbic, cerebral poems have been published in New Writer, Fuselit, Iota, The Ugly Tree and Nth Position. Hannah has hosted a range of literature events in Newcastle and Norwich. She is currently working towards a first collection called ‘you interrupt my brain sweetheart’.

Links: The Romance of Crime, Wrong