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Rachel Bentham is an award winning script writer, short story writer, poet and novelist. Her plays, docudramas and short stories have been broadcast on BBC radio 4. She won the US International Open Poetry Contest and is internationally published and broadcast.  She lectures in Creative Studies at Bath Spa University, and was appointed Royal Literary Fellow at Exeter University 2006-7 and Cardiff University 2007-9

Lucy English has three novels published by Fourth Estate. She is also a performance poet. She is a lecturer in Creative Studies at Bath Spa University and from 2003-7 was the Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea and from 2007-9 the Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She has run workshops for the British Council, Arvon, and the New Writing Fellowship.