HELEY, VERONICA
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 14.30
Submit an idea in no more than 100 words, together with page one of chapter one.

HILLIER, BEVIS
Saturday: 10:15-12:30 & 14.15 - 15.00 & 17.00 - 17.30
Send the first 10 pages of your proposed biography or your literary criticism.

HOGG, CAROLINE (A)
Saturday: 11.30 - 12.30 & 15.15 - 16.15
Send ten pages and a synopsis of women's fiction.

HOLLAND ROGERS, BRUCE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.30 – 17.30
Send the first five pages of fiction, a complete two-page synopsis of a novel, or both together. His emphasis in critique is on creating a satisfying overall structure for a narrative (synopsis) or writing a compelling and convincing first five pages.

HOLT, DEBBY
Saturday: 10.15 - 11.00 & 14.15 - 17.30
Happy to give advice on novel-writing and getting published. For feedback, please send synopsis and/or first chapter.

HORTON, LESLEY
Saturday: 11.30 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 16.15
Lesley would like to see members of the course to discuss their work, but is also happy to talk to those delegates starting out on a crime novel. Anyone who would like feedback on the synopsis and/or the first couple of chapters of an ongoing manuscript, send by June 4.

JAHANS, KEITH
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Please bring a synopsis of the book and details of any experience with publishing whether it be POD, audio or via a website.

JAMES, DAVID
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Please bring a synopsis of the book and details of any experience with publishing whether it be POD, audio or via a website.

JENKINS, JOHN
Saturday 10.15 – 11.15 & 14.15 - 14.45 & 17.00 - 17.30
Send a 1,000 word non-fiction article.

JOHNSTON, PHILIPPA
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15-17.30
Philippa is Director of Writers' Compass and specializes in helping writers to move forward professionally and achieve their goals. Information and advice given on any professional development matter including possible routes you can take, where you can go for support, and strategies for overcoming obstacles. Send brief details of what you'd like to discuss (maximum one page) together with your CV.

KING, CATHERINE
Saturday: 10.15 - 11.15 & 15.30 - 17.30
Catherine King will advise on writing and placing novel-length women's fiction for work Send a maximum of 1000 words, which includes the opening pages and a synopsis.

KING, SOPHIE
Saturday: 10.15 - 11.00
Send a synopsis and a chapter of fiction or an article of 10 pages.

KING, ZOË(A)
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Interested in all areas of commercial/mass-market non fiction; send the first three chapters and an outline.

LAMONT, LOUISE (A)
Friday: 10.00 - 17.00
Send well-written fiction and non-fiction in any genre and for any age.

MORRISON, CRYSSE
Saturday: 11.30 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Happy to see writers of any genre who are looking for support and encouragement and to discuss their projects. Bring your work.


MURDOCH, JUDITH (A)
Friday: 14.00 - 17.30 Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30, 14.15 - 17.30
Delegates who have an appointment with Judith should bring a chapter heading outline or synopsis and the first three chapters to discuss. Judith will discuss complete novels (no sf, fantasy or children's). Looking for storytellers.

MUSSI, SARAH
Saturday: 11.30 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Provide a brief tagline ( e.g. TITLE is a story about CHARACTER(S) who set out to PLOT GOAL but end up PLOT POINTS - or similar), a one page synopsis and the opening of your story.

NASH, KATE (A)
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.15 - 16.15
Send the opening chapter and one page synopsis of the whole book.

NORTH, SAM
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.15 - 17.30
E-mail two chapters and one page outline by May 28th. Work will not be accepted after that date. Sam.North@port.ac.uk

PELTER, STANLEY
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 15.45
Send examples of haiku with detailed commentary.

PICKERING, JULIET (A)
Friday: 10.00 - 17.00
Send literary fiction, well-written commercial fiction with a humorous bent, narrative non-fiction, and food and travel writing. Send the first two chapters and a synopsis for fiction, and a chapter outline for non-fiction. This must be well written fiction or non fiction in any genre or any age.

RASTEGAR, HOMA (A)
Homa Rastegar is interested in literary and commercial fiction, especially crime and thrillers. Narratives must be well written and plot-driven. Please send a brief back-of-the-book blurb and author bio, along with the first chapter.

REGAN, LINDA
Saturday: 11.30 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 15.45
Linda is happy to talk to any delegates about turning rejection into acceptance, how a good letter and a synopsis opens doors for you.

RULE, SUE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 15.00 & 16.30 - 17.30
Send a sample (2000 - 5000 words) from a completed manuscript for a personal critique of publication readiness.

SANDHAM, FRAN
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.30 -17.30
Send articles up to 1,500 words or a sample of a guidebook or for a travel literature book, send 2000 words or send a short sample pitch.

SCHNEIDER, MYRA
Saturday 11.30 - 12.30 & 15.30 - 16.30
Poets should submit up to sixty lines of poetry to discuss.

SIMONS, JAKE WALLIS (A)
Saturday 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Please send a synopsis and the first ten pages.

SPEDDING, SALLY
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.30 - 17.30
Would like to meet writers of crime, horror and the supernatural. Please send either a complete short story or a one page synopsis and first three chapters of a finished or unfinished novel or novella.

SPENCER, ALLIE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Send the first chapter and a synopsis for the one-to-one meetings.


STANSBIE, STEPHANIE (A)
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30, 14.15 -17.30
Stephanie is available on Saturday for one-to-one appointments to review delegates' work or answer queries. Delegates wishing to have feedback on their work should send manuscripts of no more than 1,500 words, plus a synopsis for longer works. Please note that there are a limited number of appointments, so do book early. Stephanie is unable to review submissions outside of these meetings and only those manuscripts sent in advance will be considered.

SWEENEY, SALLYANNE (A)
Friday: 10.00 - 12.30 - 17.00
Send first chapter or first ten pages.

TAGGART, CAROLINE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 15.30 - 17.30
Non-fiction only. Please send a maximum of 10 pages: a sample covering letter, outline and/or sample text.

WENHAM-JONES, JANE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 -15.00
Bring the first few pages of your novel, a short story or article. Jane Wenham-Jones will be happy to give general advice on getting published.

WHITEHOUSE, LUCIE
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15 - 17.30
Please send three pages and the synopsis of your work.

WILLS, JAMES (A)
Saturday: 10.15 - 12.30 & 14.15- 17.30
James is looking for striking, quirky, character-driven, commercial and literary fiction that is thrilling, bold and beautifully written. His interests range from the decidedly off-beat to the unashamedly popular side of popular culture. He is always looking for writers with an edge who are experts in their fields. Please send hardcopies of the synopsis and first two chapters that you'd like James to read.

ONE-TO ONE APPOINTMENTS - SPEAKERS' DETAILS

ALLNATT, JUDITH
Judith Allnatt is a writer and lecturer. Her first novel, A Mile of River, was a Radio 5 Live Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature. Short stories have featured in the Bridport Prize Anthology, on Radio 4 and in the Commonwealth Short Story Collection 2009. Her second novel, The Poet's Wife, was recently published by Transworld. Judith lectures widely, freelance and for the Universities of Leicester and Buckingham.

ARNOLD, ELIZABETH
Elizabeth Arnold's first book, The Parsley Parcel was published in 1995 and short listed for the Whitbread Children's Award. It is now published by Back to Front. Her second book, Gold and Silver Water, was commended for the TES/NASEN Special Educational Needs Award, 2001. The third book in the series is A Riot of Red Ribbon. The trilogy became a television series called Gypsy Girl shown on CITV. A ghost story, The Gold-Spectre, was published by A & C Black. Elizabeth has contributed to Higher Ground, a collection of stories edited by Anuj Goyal, about child tsunami survivors and the Wow! 366 Scholastic collection; the profits going to several children's charities. She also edited Soul-Fire, a collection of stories written by children for children. With eight books under her belt, Elizabeth has diversified and written the story behind a computer game, Escape from the Asteroids, produced by Zarista Games and is at present working on extending that game for iphone and another Asteroid expansion. She is a huge believer in the story in any medium.

ASHFORD, LINDSAY
Lindsay Ashford is the author of five published crime novels and several short stories, some of which have appeared in national magazines and on BBC Radio 4. She has also edited collections of short fiction, most recently Dancing With Mr Darcy, an anthology of the winning entries to the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009. Lindsay founded the competition on behalf of Chawton House Library and is currently organising next year's award, which carries a first prize of £1,000. Rights to the collection of winning stories were recently sold in the USA. Lindsay divides her time between a house on the Welsh coast and an Elizabethan dovecot, a stone's throw from Jane Austen's cottage in Hampshire.

ASHTON, BRAD
Brad has written more than 1,000 television and radio shows including shows and series for Tommy Cooper, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Frankie Howard, David Frost and for fourteen weeks, he was Head Writer for Groucho Marx. He has run comedy writing seminars for television companies in Germany, Holland, Austria and Finland and he has published two text books 'How to Write Comedy' and 'The Funny Thing about Writing Comedy' and is the author of many humorous magazine articles. He currently writes a regular comedy page, and is theatre critic for Taxi Newspaper which is a nationally circulated newspaper read by cab drivers.

BATTY, CRAIG
Dr Craig Batty is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Bournemouth University. He is a writer and script consultant, and has worked on short film, feature film and television projects. He is co-author of two books: Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches, and Media Writing: A Practical Introduction.

BAVISTER, PAUL
Paul Bavister worked for Macmillan Publishers for many years and now teaches creative writing at the University of Reading and Birkbeck College, London. He has published three books of poetry.

BELLI, LORELLA (A)
Lorella Belli has worked for various publishers and literary agencies before setting up her own agency in London's Notting Hill in 2002. She studied literature and languages and her MA dissertation was entitled ''The Literary Agent as Businessman and as Promoter of Literature'. A member of the Association of Authors' Agents and other trade organizations, Lorella is often asked to give talks to students of creative writing courses, authors' groups, writers' conferences and festivals, and she runs publishing seminars for various organizations.
LBLA (Lorella Belli Literary Agency) handles full-length fiction (from literary to genre - in particular women's fiction, historical, crime and thrillers) and general non-fiction (humour, popular music, popular science, popular history, business, lifestyle, current affairs, memoirs, biography, autobiography, general self-help, travel, sport, women's issues, fashion, and food/wine). No children's, fantasy or science books.
Particularly interested in first-time authors, journalists, multi-cultural and international writing, and books about Italy, she represents several award-winning and bestselling authors of fiction and non-fiction.

BENNETT, KEITH
Keith Bennett's poems have won prizes, Keith Bennett's performances have won prizes, The New Forest Poet Society he started, has won prizes. Reader for The Literary Consultancy, Mentor for NAWE. Long-lister for Hampshire Library's Poet Laureate. Keith says: 'There's more to poetry than winning prizes.'

BIRCH, BEVERLEY (A)
Beverley Birch is both author and editor, commissioning children's fiction for Hodder Children's Books for the past twelve years, where she works with some of the most outstanding children's writers and has been twice shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for nurturing new talent. Her last novel, RIFT, a mystery thriller set in Africa was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for a number of prizes, and optioned for film. Author of more than 40 books, Beverley has been in children's publishing, on both sides of the fence, since joining Penguin Books in 1975 to edit economics textbooks. Immediately offered a move to the children's list, she found her true home and has never looked back. She has just finished a new African mystery thriller for Egmont, SIRI, to be published next year.

HELEN BROCKENHURST (CE)
Helen Brocklehurst is a freelance editorial consultant, specialising in illustrated and narrative commercial non-fiction. She started her publishing career ten years ago with Routledge, then moved to Random House, where she edited illustrated lifestyle titles. She went on to spend seven years commissioning at HarperCollins where she was latterly Editorial Director for popular non-fiction, natural history and health.

BRYERS, PAUL
Paul Bryers is a writer and filmmaker based in London. He is currently working on a series of novels set during the Wars of the French Revolution, the first of which - The Time of Terror - was published by Hodder Headline in June 2008 under the pen name Seth Hunter. He has also been commissioned to write a series of children's novels - Mysteries of the Septagram - the first of which - Kobal - was published by Hodder in July 2008. The sequels in both series - The Tide of War and Avatar - were published in Spring 2010.
His previous novels include The Used Women's Book Club, Prayer of the Bone, In a Pig's Ear, the Adultery Department and Coming First, all published by Bloomsbury in the UK. He has taught creative writing as a senior lecturer at Bath Spa University. He won an English Arts Council award for Best First Novel. 'In a Pig's Ear' was named as one of the Guardian's six Best Novels of the Year.
He has produced and directed documentaries in many parts of the world and was deputy editor and series director of Channel Four's The Shape of the World and A Week in Politics. Price of Glory will be published by Hodder Headline in June and Abyss published by Hodder Children's Books in May. Further details on www.paulbryers.com

BURNS, CAROLE
Carole Burns is the author of Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings and Everything in Between (Norton 2008) which is based on interviews that she conducted for washingtonpost.com with writers including Martin Amis, A.S. Byatt and Paul Auster. She is programme leader for the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Winchester.

CARRADICE, PHIL
Phil Carradice is a novelist, poet and historian. He has published over thirty books, fact and fiction, and presents his own weekly history show on BBC Radio Wales. His most recent books are The Black Chair, a novel for older teenagers and adults (Pont/Gomer) and People's Poetry of the Second World War, an account of the poetry produced by ordinary men and women between 1939 and 1945 (Cecil Woolf Publishers).

CAUGHEY, CAROLYN (CE)
Carolyn Caughey has worked for many years at Hodder & Stoughton, where she is now a Consultant Editor. She loves all kinds of popular fiction, from love stories to horror stories by way of thrillers and detective fiction. Her authors currently include - in no particular order - such varied writers as Mandasue Heller, Audrey Howard, Anthony Riches and Jill Paton Walsh. She hopes to find one new bestseller this year and publish it in 2011.

CHRIS, TERESA(A)
Teresa Chris has been the agent for best selling authors and wannabes for many years. She sells books internationally and 'in her stable' she numbers many successful graduates from the Winchester Writers' Conference including Debby Holt, Lesley Horton, Jane Bidder/Sophie King, Ally Spencer and Jane Wenham Jones. Always on the lookout for another 'gem', she is happy to work with those showing great potential.

CHURCHILL, JULIA (A)
Julia Churchill joined the Greenhouse Literary Agency in January 2009 after six years at the Darley Anderson Literary Agency. She specialises in children's books from 5+ up to young adults and is on the look-out for new storytelling talent. The Greenhouse is a children's book agency with agents in the UK and US. With an emphasis on working creatively with clients, Greenhouse can help writers develop their unique voice, focus their work and be their advocate, ambassador and long-term partner through the whole publishing process and beyond.

CLAY, DANIEL
Daniel Clay is the pen-name for Nigel Spriggs. He is thirty-nine years old and his debut novel, Broken, was published by HarperPress in 2008. He has also had short-stories, articles and poetry published and works as a creative writing tutor for Writers' News. He is presently finishing his second novel, Swap, which is due to be published in February 2011.

CONDON, DONNA (A)
Donna Condon is commissioning fiction editor on the Piatkus list at Little, Brown. She works across the wide-ranging list, with particular focus on supernatural fiction.

COOPER, ELINOR (A)
Elinor Cooper studied English and American Literature at the University of Manchester, and then worked as a bookseller before joining A P Watt in 2004. She was made Associate Agent in 2007. Her interests include literary fiction, narrative non-fiction and books for young adults.

DINES, ADRIENNE
Adrienne graduated from Trinity College, Dublin as a teacher before moving to the UK and establishing herself as a speechwriter and after dinner speaker. Her first novel, Toppling Miss April was published in 2005 , followed by The Jigsaw Maker and Soft Voices Whispering in 2006 and a play, In the Arms of a Child in 2007. She is currently busy writing, giving talks and running creative writing workshops in Dublin and the UK. Ever the teacher, she welcomes the opportunity writing affords her to meet and encourage new and struggling writers.

DINSDALE, ROBERT (A)
Robert Dinsdale is a literary agent at HHB Agency Ltd, having formerly worked at Conville and Walsh and AM Heath. He represents a small but eclectic group of fiction and non-fiction writers. His first novel, The Harrowing, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.

ELLIOT, ROSE
Rose Elliot MBE is Britain's foremost vegetarian cookery writer and her books have won her popular acclaim all over the world. She has written over 60 books, with sales of over 3½ million and contributes to national magazines, radio and TV. For more about Rose, see her website www.roseelliot.com.

ESSER, CAROLIN
Carolin is a medievalist with an interest in fantasy of cultural concepts and identity through the monstrous and the other. Her classes on Anglo-Saxon monsters and on the devil invite her to explore the concept of the monstrous repeatedly. She also works on non-linear texts and hypertexts, both in medieval and modern contexts. She has recently begun to employ her experience in order to advise writers in both fields. Carolin is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Winchester.

EVANS, JUDE (A)
Jude Evans is Associate Publisher of Little Tiger Press, an independent publishing house specialising in picture books and novelty books for 0-7-year-olds. Previously she has worked on young fiction, teenage fiction and non-fiction.


FERGUSSON, LORNA
Lorna Fergusson is Head of English at Cherwell College, Oxford and teaches Creative Writing on Oxford University's Summer School programme. A past Ian St James Award winner, she has judged several short story competitions. Her novel, The Chase, is published by Bloomsbury. She blogs at http://literascribe.blogspot.com and offers writing courses and editorial, critiquing and mentoring help at www.fictionfire.co.uk.

FORD, MICHAEL (A)
Michael Ford studied Classics and English at Worcester College, Oxford, then taught English in Greece before working in various publishing roles. He is currently a Senior Commissioning Editor at Working Partners, a packaging of bestselling fiction for UK, US and foreign language publishers.

Michael has written non-fiction books for seven year olds, and he is one of several authors writing under the pseudonym Adam Blade on the multi-million-selling Beast Quest series for boys aged from seven and above. He also writes a series for Egmont called Striker under the name Nick Hale, about a teenage footballer-come-spy, aimed for 10 year olds. For Bloomsbury, Michael has written an ancient historical trilogy called Spartan, also for the ten year old age group, and his latest novel for Bloomsbury (coming out in August) is a standalone Victorian paranormal murder mystery called The Poisoned House which is about a girl whose dead mother revisits her to say she was murdered.

GILBEY, JOHN
John Gilbey is a professional writer and photographer living in rural West Wales. An environmental scientist and computer science lecturer by training, his stories and images have appeared in a range of publications including Nature, The Guardian, International Herald-Tribune, New Scientist, Times Higher Education, The Independent - as well as more unusual titles such as the Journal of Unlikely Science and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a local paper in Alaska.

GOULDEN, SOPHIE (CE)
Sophie Goulden is an Assistant Editor at HarperPress (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) where she has been working since she graduated from university. She is particularly interested in quirky non-fiction 'ideas' books as well as books focusing on under explored areas of history, with popular appeal.

GREENBERG, LOUISE (A)
Louise set up her own literary agency after leaving the BBC 10 years ago, where she had been an award-winning chief producer, working as Louise Pursloe. She has seen many new writers, historians and performers onto the air. Louise runs her list and gravitates toward serious non-fiction. The agency is also responsible for some successful fiction, both literary and light as well as humour. There are three household names on her list but most are newcomers. Three of them have appeared, variously on the Booker longlist, the Wingate shortlist and won the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize for an art book.

HABENS, ALISON
Alison Habens is the author of three novels: Dreamhouse, Family Outing and Lifestory. She is course leader for creative writing at the University of Portsmouth; and has recently completed a PhD on the theme of 'divine inspiration'.

HAMPSON, JUNE
June Hampson began her writing career as a journalist for a Scottish newspaper in the 198O's. She has sold over 7OO short stories, articles and poetry to magazines in Britain, Sweden, Germany and America. She has been a creative writing tutor for Hampshire County Council for many years currently teaching at three colleges in the Gosport and Fareham area. In 2006 her novel, a gritty gangster saga, Trust Nobody, the first in a three book deal was bought by Orion. Broken Bodies, (2007) Damaged Goods (2008) followed. A further three book deal resulted in Fatal Cut (February2009) Jail Bait (April 2010). Rough Trade continues the harsh and hard bitten lives of her unforgettable characters.

HANSON, DAVID
In the US and UK David Hanson has written film scripts, documentaries and comedy series for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, HBO, ABC Television and Universal Pictures, and was co-creator of the UK/US television character Max Headroom. He has also created University screenwriting courses and is now Head of the London School of Film, Media & Performance at Regents College.

HELEY, VERONICA
Veronica celebrated the publication of her 65th book this month. She is currently writing two gentle crime series which are popular here and in America. She also writes romance/suspense, short stories, book reviews, articles, resource books and stories with a Christian background for children of all ages.

HILLIER, BEVIS
Bevis Hillier, who holds an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winchester, was born in 1940. He was educated at Reigate School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read History. His first job was on the Times and later he edited the Connoisseur Magazine and wrote for The Times Saturday Review. For five year he was a columnist for The Los Angeles Times, where he was awarded the Gladstone Memorial Prize 1961. He is the author of 30 books. These include, Art Deco (1968) - the book that popularised that name for the decorative style of the 1920's and 30's. He is perhaps best known for his glorious biography of Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate, published in three volumes which took 28 years to research and write. The result was described by Professor John Carey as 'a model of biography'.

HOGG, CAROLINE (A)
Caroline Hogg first started work at Little, Brown Book Group in 2003 as an editorial assistant. She worked her way up through various roles before becoming an acquiring editor in 2009. She commissions commercial women's fiction for the Sphere imprint.

HOLT, DEBBY
Debby Holt began her writing career by producing short stories for magazines. She met her agent, Teresa Chris, at the Winchester Writers Conference and since then has written five novels, the latest of which, Recipe for Scandal, was published in January 2010.

HORTON, LESLEY
It is thanks to the Winchester conference that Lesley got her first big break. An agent read the first page of her manuscript, took the rest home and by the following Wednesday had agreed to represent her. Since then she has written five novels, the latest of which, Twisted Tracks, was published in December 2008 and is now working on her sixth.

JAHANS, KEITH
Keith Jahans is a writer and microbiologist. He formed Peatmore Press as an on-line magazine in 1996 to publish and promote his writing. In 2008 he left his microbiology job at Defra's Veterinary Laboratories Agency and established Peatmore Press as a Limited Company the following year. His first novel, Cogrill's Mill was self-published as an ebook in March 2006 and as a paperback in April 2009. His second Victim of Compromise was launched in February 2010. He has gained considerable experience and expertise in the world of self publishing. Further information about him can be found by visiting his website at http://peatmore.com.

JAMES, DAVID
David James has taught English at universities in England, North America, Morocco and the Gulf. In 1965 he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and in 1978 a British Academy Fellowship. Years later, having by then written sundry plays, stories, articles and reviews he self-published three novels. A fourth novel, The Confessions of Becky Sharp, will be commercially published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie in January 2011. For more details on David please visit www.freewebs.com/davejamesbooks

JENKINS, JOHN
John Jenkins is a former night editor of the Daily Telegraph. From Fleet Street he established two publishing companies, has edited 22 books, written three biographies and established the magazine Writers' Forum. He has sold articles and stories to more than 300 titles throughout the world and lectured at several universities. His latest work is a text book for journalists entitled: Essential Editing.

JOHNSON, MARK
Mark Johnson is Head of Digital Communities at HarperCollins Publishers, where he runs the sites authonomy.com and bookarmy.com.
Authonomy is a unique talent-spotting community for writers, readers and publishers. The site enables unpublished and self-published writers to upload their work to the web for visitors to discuss and recommend; each month the five most popular manuscripts are delivered to HarperCollins editors, who consider them for publication. Since launch four authors discovered through the site have been published by HarperCollins, with notable success: in 2009, Miranda Dickinson's Fairytale of New York spent three weeks in the Sunday Times Bestseller List. The site itself now enjoys several million page-views each month.

Mark joined HarperCollins in 2005, working in editorial, marketing and sales before joining the digital publishing team in 2007. He worked on the UK ebook programme, ran literary blog Fifth Estate and produced multimedia products on a range of devices before launching authonomy in
2008 and bookarmy in 2009.

JOHNSTON, PHILIPPA (A)
Philippa Johnston is Director of Writers' Compass, a wing of the National Association of Writers in Education with a specific remit for providing information and advice on professional development for all writers. She has had experience of helping a wide range of writers at all stages of their career to move forward professionally.

KING, CATHERINE
Catherine jumped the gap from being an academic to becoming a full time author in the space of a year and is working on her sixth, romantic, historical novel. All her titles are published in hardback, paperback, large print and spoken word formats. Silk and Steel was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2008. She comes from Yorkshire and uses her family history and local industry in the Victorian era to spark off her stories. Further details on www.catherineking.info

KING, SOPHIE
Sophie King (pen name for Jane Bidder) has been a journalist for over 25 years and contributes regularly to national newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Express. She has written five novels, The School Run, mums@home, Second Time Lucky , The Supper Club and The Wedding Party - all of which are best-sellers. She is published by Hodder & Stoughton. The Wedding Party was shortlisted for Love Story of the Year (an award given annually by the Romantic Novelists Association).
Sophie has had hundreds of short stories published in magazines such as Woman's Weekly and My Weekly as well as non-fiction books for both adults and children. Her recent book How To Write Short Stories For Magazines And Get Published has been called 'A real gem'. Her latest non-fiction book is called How to Write Your First Novel and has had great reviews. Both are published by How To Books.

KING, ZOË (A)
Zoé King is an Associate Agent for the Darley Anderson Literary Agency. Her non-fiction ranges from cookbooks to narrative non-fiction and miscellany. She will work with any person or theme she finds interesting and that has commercial appeal.

LAMONT, LOUISE (A)
Louise Lamont studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto before joining A P Watt in May 2006. She was made an Associate Agent in 2009.

MORRISON, CRYSSE
Crysse Morrison writes fiction, poetry and drama. Hailed by 'The Times' as a 'superb storyteller' for her debut novel, Crysse also writes short stories and plays, and leads creative writing courses in the UK and abroad. Her Good Practice column appears monthly in Writing Magazine.

MURDOCH, JUDITH (A)
Judith Murdoch worked as an editor before setting up her own agency in 1993. She specialises in quality commercial fiction and is always interested in new authors who have a strong individual voice and a powerful story to tell. Her authors include Anne Berry, Tony Black, Lola Jaye, Jessie Keane, Jaishree Misra, Leah Fleming, Trisha Ashley and Catherine King.

MUSSI, SARAH
Sarah Mussi's first novel, The Door of No Return won the Glen Dimplex Children's Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award amongst others. Her second novel, The Last of the Warrior Kings, published in April 2008, shortlisted for Lewisham Book Award, is a fast-paced tale charting the downfall of Max, a black hoody from South London, determined to redress history and avenge his brother's death by restoring the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.
Sarah has appeared at many festivals, including Henley and Guildford; she is a regular tutor for the Winchester Writers' Conference, and has given workshops for SCBWI as well as to many schools.

NASH, KATE (A)
Kate Nash launched a literary agency in January 2009 and is actively looking to build her client list. She represents authors Lesley Cookman, Sally Spedding and Fenella Miller. Kate worked with Myrmidon Books since their launch in 2006 as well as undertaking publicity for authors, publishers and book trade events including the YoungMinds Books Award 2007 at Red Wave Communications Ltd where she is a director. Kate writes historical romance under her maiden name Kate Allan. The Agency website and blog is at http://slushpilemountaineering.wordpress.com.

NORTH, SAM
Sam North is the author of the ghost story 'Mean Tide' & the flu pandemic novel 'Another Place to Die'
He has a two book deal with Hodders Children's Books to be published in 2011 He is currently the Course Leader of the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth and Editor of the long running web magazine Hackwriters.com

PELTER, STANLEY
Stanley Pelter, now 74, was part of the very first Writers' Conference in 1980. Having spent a working life in further education he has, since retiring, written several books of haiku and five collections of haibun, the genre that embeds haiku into 'haikuesque' prose.

PICKERING, JULIET (A)
Juliet Pickering joined A P Watt in September 2003, and became an Associate Agent in 2007. Prior to joining the company, she studied English Literature at the University of Surrey before becoming a fiction buyer for Waterstones.

RASTEGAR, HOMA(A)
Homa Rastegar has been an associate agent at A P Watt Ltd since 2007. She is interested in literary and commercial fiction, especially crime and thrillers.

REGAN, LINDA
Linda is a successful actress who has always written alongside her acting assignments. After winning a crime novel competition, in 2005, she had her first crime novel Behind You published, and has since followed that with two others. She has also written for radio and many short stories, one which won a national WH Smith Award. She has recently acquired a master's degree in creative writing.

RULE, SUE
Sue Rule self-published her first novel Cloak of Magic as a Print On Demand title in 2006 through Authors On-Line. The second in her Shaihen Heritage series, Staff of Power, was published by traditional methods in January 2009 with Pegasus Elliott Mackenzie Vanguard Press. As well as her personal experience as an independent author, Sue brings her experience of setting up and running a small business and her professional marketing expertise. Sue is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and earns her living as Marketing Director for SMS Ltd., a specialist IT management consultancy in which she and her husband are major shareholders.

SANDHAM, FRAN
Fran was an editor at Rough Guides for several years and worked in bookselling and the voluntary sector. His book Traversa: A solo walk across Africa was serialised by The Sunday Times, and he has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times and various travel magazines. He divides his time between freelance writing, freelance editing and public speaking.

SCHNEIDER, MYRA
Myra Schneider's tenth collection of poetry is Circling the Core (Enitharmon 2008). Writing Your Self with John Killick (Continuum 2009) is her third book about personal writing. She has co-edited four anthologies of poetry by contemporary women writers, is an experienced writing tutor and currently works for The Poetry School. She is consultant to the Second Light Network of women poets.

WALLIS SIMONS, JAKE (A)
Jake Simons is a published novelist, journalist and Senior Editorial Consultant at Addison and Cole. His first novel was named as an Independent on Sunday Book of the Year, and he writes for The Times and The Guardian.

SPEDDING, SALLY
Sally's first supernatural crime novel, Wringland, was published in 2001, followed by Cloven, A Night With No Stars, Prey Silence, and in 2007, Come and be Killed. Her crime short stories have won awards and appeared in two CWA anthologies. Sword Lilies is included in Best British Crime Stories Vol 7 (ed Maxim Jakubowski) due out in March 2010. Strangers Waiting, her first collection, was published by Bluechrome in 2008. She is currently working on her latest crime mystery set beneath the Cambrian Hills. www.sallyspedding.com

SPENCER, ALLIE
Before becoming a full-time writer, Allie obtained degrees in English Literature and Medieval Studies. She also qualified as a barrister and practised family and matrimonial law for a number of years. Her first novel, the romantic comedy Tug of Love was the winner of the 2009 RNA New Writers' Award and her second, The Not-So-Secret Diary of a City Girl is out on 1st April 2010 with Little Black Dress.

STANSBIE, STEPHANIE (A)
Stephanie Stansbie is Editorial Director at Little Tiger Press, an independent publishing house specialising in picture books and novelty books. She has edited picture books, novelty books, non-fiction and young fiction during her time at Random House Children's Books.

SWEENEY, SALLYANNE (A)
Sallyanne Sweeney is an agent at Watson, Little Ltd and has a BA in English and Sociology from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MPhil in American Literature from Cambridge University. She is currently building her list and is looking for talented writers of literary and commercial fiction. She is also passionate about exciting and original writing for children and young adults, and is interested in narrative non-fiction, quirky gift books, food writing and crafts.

TAGGART, CAROLINE
Caroline Taggart is a former commissioning editor and now freelance editor and author. She is the editor and spokeswoman of Writer's Market UK and Ireland: your guide to making money from your writing. She is also the best-selling author of a number of popular reference books, including I Used to Know That and My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?)

WENHAM-JONES, JANE
Jane Wenham-Jones is a novelist and journalist who has been widely published in women's magazines and the national press. She is a regular columnist for Woman's Weekly Fiction Special, BookTime and her local paper The Isle of Thanet Gazette as well as being the agony aunt for Writing Magazine. Jane is the author of three novels and two non-fiction books including the acclaimed Wannabe a Writer? Her latest - Wannabe a Writer> We've Heard Of? will be published in October this year. For more information see www.janewenham-jones.com

WHITEHOUSE, LUCIE
Lucie Whitehouse is a novelist and former literary agent. She worked for top commercial literary agency, Darley Anderson, for five years before publishing her own first novel, The House at Midnight. Her second novel, The Bed I Made, was published in January this year by Bloomsbury.

WILLS, JAMES (A)
James Wills is a Director at Watson, Little Ltd and looks after a dynamic and wide-ranging list of writers. He has an MA in 20th Century Literature from the University of Leeds and is passionate about reading and good writing. He is hugely enthusiastic about his authors' work and is always searching for new, exciting material.