David Rose
David Rose has published two novels – Vault and Meridian – and a story collection – Posthumous Stories. He appears in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

James Wall
My work has previously been published in the Best British Short Stories anthology, Tears in the Fence, Unthology 6, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, The Nottingham Review, Prole, The View from Here, Long Story, Short Journal, Fictive Dream, and in Matter Magazine. I was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and I have an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. I am currently in the final stages of my latest novel.

Gill Blow
Gill Blow lives in Lincolnshire, UK and writes short stories which have been published in The Reader and The Crannog Literary Magazine among others; her story ‘Ladies of the Soil’ was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She was awarded first prize in the Rubery Short Story Competition 2013 for her story ‘On the Bench’ and her work has been shortlisted in competitions such as The Bridport Prize, Mslexia and The Fish Short Story Prize. She was awarded the A M Heath Prize for her final submission of short fiction for the MA at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Several years ago Gill set up an amateur theatre group called The Workhouse Players who perform a selection of her wide range of monologues and duologues in various locations in Lincolnshire.

Jim Ruland is the author of the novel Forest of Fortune (Tyrus Books) and the short story collection Big Lonesome (Gorsky Press), and the co-author — with Scott Campbell Jr. of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch — of Giving the Finger (Lyons Press). He is currently collaborating with Keith Morris on his memoir My Damage about his life with Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and OFF! (Da Capo 2016). "His new book, Do What You Want with Bad Religion will be published in August."

Mirene Arsanios
Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection, The City Outside the Sentence (Ashkal Alwan, 2015). She has contributed essays and short stories to e-flux journal, Vida, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, and Guernica, among others. Arsanios co-founded the collective 98weeks Research Project in Beirut and is the founding editor of Makhzin, a bilingual English/Arabic magazine for innovative writing.