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Vicky Morris is an award-winning poet and the founder of Hive Young Writers, an organisation for young writers in South Yorkshire. She received a 2014 Northern Writers Award, and won 1st prize for poetry in the 2020 Aurora Prize. Monique Rof
Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo's poetry collections include No Traveller Returns (2003), Undraining Sea (2009), Dark and Unaccustomed Words (2012), Utter (2013), Measures of Expatriation (2016), which won the 2016 Forward Prize, and Ve
A doctor of neuroscience by training and a former Royal Society fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Rachel Genn's debut novel The Cure was published by Corsair in 2011. Her second novel, What You Could Have Won, is due fo
Natalie Burdett was selected by Carol Ann Duffy as a Laureate's Choice Poet for 2018, with her pamphlet Urban Drift published by The Poetry Business. She is currently studying for a Creative Writing PhD at MMU's Writing School.Crime novelist
Helen Mort, former co-host of Two Min Stories, is the author of two collections of poetry, a novel (Black Car Burning) and a collection of short fiction (Exire). She is also a dramatist and an academic, and a regular BBC broadcaster.Emily Ol
Michelle Green's multi-award nominated short fiction collection, Jebel Marra, about her time as an aid worker in Darfur, is published by Comma Press. Her work has also appeared in the Comma Press anthology Protest! Stories of Resistance, on BB
Emma McGordon is an award-winning poet, performer and community artist. Her many awards and nominations include the 2017 Julia Darling Award from New Writing North and the longlist for the National Poetry Award 2019.Ian Walker was also longl
Novelist and flash fiction maestro David Gaffney, and author Polly Checkland-Harding join Chris and guest co-host Mark to read their contributions to the Two Minute Stories cannon, and chat about storytelling, writing practice, and how to write
A special episode in conjunction with the Sheaf Poetry Festival 2019, featuring Vahni Capildeo, Warda Yassin, Ian Humphreys, Rebecca Tamas, Young Poet-in-Residence Georgie Woodhead and Rachael Allen.Co-hosted by Mark Pajak.
Bella Fortune is a writer, poet & performance artist. A former writer-in-residence for Theatre Bristol, she has performed all over the UK, including at Carol Ann Duffy and Friends at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.Crime novelist Oliver
Emily Oldfield is hotly-tipped young writer and poet whose work has been described as weird, dark and wonderful. She is currently an editor at Haunt Manchester, and is a researcher on the Writing Manchester map. She is working on her first pa
Natalie Burdett was selected by Carol Ann Duffy as a Laureate's Choice Poet for 2018, with her pamphlet Urban Drift published by The Poetry Business. She is currently studying for a Creative Writing PhD at MMU's Writing School. John Fennell
Andrew McMillan's debut poetry collection, Physical, was the first ever poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award. It also won a Somerset Maugham Award, and Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers Award, was shortlisted for the
Anna Chilvers is currently working on her PhD in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School, aided by Two Minutes Stories' co-host Helen Mort. She is the author of two novels published by Blue Moose books: Tainted Love and Falling Thro
Joe Stretch, former lead singer of Manchester band Performance, is the author of three novels: Friction, Wildlife and The Adult, the last of which won the Somerset Maugham award in 2013.Adelle Stripe's debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brillian
Anjum Malik is a poet and scriptwriter based in the Manchester Writing School. She recently adapted Claudia Roden's cookbook for BBC Radio 4, and is currently developing feature film and TV drama projects. Poet Kim Moore's outstanding colle
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