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Susannah Wise
Susannah Wise grew up in London and the Midlands. She is the author of two previous novels, This Fragile Earth and Okay Then That’s Great (both published by Gollancz/Orion). Both were longlisted for the Mslexia Award.
Laura Dockrill
Laura Dockrill is an award winning author and illustrator. The first in her 'Darcy Burdock' series was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year prize and her most recent young adult novel, Big Bones, was released in 2018.
John Hegley
Mr Hegley was born in Newington Green, North London, and was educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University.
James Jones
James Jones is an award-winning art director, designer and illustrator who freelances for publishers all over the world.
Sarah Driver
Sarah grew up on the South East coast of Britain. Her granny taught her to swim in the seas of England and Spain, and when she got over her fear of being underwater, she loved pretending to be a mermaid. She has been making up stories for as long as she can remember.
Naomi Jones
Naomi Jones is an award-winning children’s author. Her books are published by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Oxford Children’s Books and Hachette Children’s Group in the UK and translated into 22 languages.
Gareth Hopkins
Gareth has written adverts on the telly, adverts on the radio, adverts on ginormous billboards that make you want to buy a pair of trainers and run really fast. But when he’s not doing that, he LOVES writing stories for children.
Nicola Kent
Nicola Kent is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books for ages 0-7. These include novelty board books, picture books, non-fiction picture books and her early chapter book series, Cat and Dumpling. In 2019, Nicola won the Independent Booksellers' Best New Illustrator Award.
Sharon King-Chai
Sharon King-Chai was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to London twenty years ago armed with a jar of vegemite and some paintbrushes in her backpack.