Bronagh Curran is an Irish writer of women’s fiction with a speculative edge. She also takes any opportunity to inject some Irish history and feminist agendas into her stories.
Her debut adult novel The Good Activist was published by independent Irish publisher Merdog Books in 2022. In 2016 the Dutch rights of her Young Adult novel The Path of Totality were sold and published as In Het Spoor Van de Eclips by Gottmer. Her YA writing has been shortlisted for the Searchlight Writing Award and the Acheven Book Prize.
Having started her career in print journalism, Bronagh swapped deadlines for dog leads to set up her own dog walking service. But when the Celtic Tiger died people started walking their own dogs again so Bronagh turned her hand to various jobs from childminding to craft teaching before settling down as a medical administrator. Raised in the small town of Oldcastle Co Meath, she spent two decades flat hopping in Dublin before making the move to Kilkenny City, where she hopes to stay. If only so she can build up a bookshelf that she doesn’t have to donate to the charity shop again.

Zoë spent fifteen years in the grown-up world before quitting her management job to write for a living (albeit mostly reports, funding bids and business cases). This was one of her better decisions and had the added bonus that it allowed her to complete the MA in Writing for Children and Young People at Bath Spa University.

Whenever she gets a free moment, Zoë can be found scribbling notes about her fantasy steampunk world. So far she’s turned these into two (and a bit) readable stories. A very early draft of one of these stories was longlisted in SCBWI’s Undiscovered Voices 2020 and the tided up version was shortlisted in the Mslexia Children’s and YA Novel competition. The other was featured in the Undiscovered Voices 2022 anthology.

Felicity Yeoh lives in London with her (totally normal) family and grew up in England, but visited Singapore and Malaysia every year. She loves reading out loud, and volunteered as an early years classroom reader and at the library throughout school and university. She works in finance.

She writes poems and songs for her three children, aged 1, 3 and 5. Her poems have been commended for Faber’s FAB Prize (2020, 2021, 2022) and Penguin WriteNow 2021. Her adult fiction has been shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran, Morley, Owned Voices, Joffe Books, London Library Emerging Writers and Book Edit Prizes and she received a London Writers Award in 2022. As a student, her poetry was awarded the Sam Hadwell Memorial Prize from Queens’ College, Cambridge and she was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Her short story, The Oldest Tale, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.

Hannah represents Felicity for her work for children.

Emily Snape is a children’s author and illustrator living in London. Her most recent middle grade book is Daniel’s Double Trouble which is about a boy who travels through time when he sneezes. She loves strong coffee, notebooks and reading about the lives of flawed fictional characters. Emily has three children, Leo, Fin and Flo who keep her on her toes and give her lots of inspiration for stories. Emily strongly believes life is too short for matching pairs of socks.

Emily is available for illustration commissions.

Grace was born and raised in Yorkshire and, during a childhood spent staying up late to read books under the covers, she decided it was time to start writing them herself.

At university, she studied Journalism, but realised she still preferred the fictional to the factual and now focuses on writing slow-burn female-centric horror.

Outside of writing, Grace works in videogames and enjoys horror movies, theatre visits and anything that could be considered an adventure.

She currently lives by the sea in Brighton, with her little cat.

Philippa grew up in East Yorkshire, spending summers down south with her eccentric grandparents and writing feverishly as soon as she could hold a pen. When not writing, she enjoys learning new languages, studying anything from historical fashion to shipwrecks, and is a bit obsessed with sharks.

She currently lives just outside Hull with her family and three weird and wonderful rescue cats, Bram, Lyra and Theo the Brave.

Born in Bangkok, boarding schooled in Auckland, now residing in Norwich, Boo is a Lunar Codex artist whose literary and illustrative works will be archived on the moon in two time capsules via NASA Artemis partners in 2024.

Boo holds an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and studied for BAs in Fashion Design at the Accademia Italiana and English with Creative Writing at Keele University. They’ve worked as a copyeditor for a Japanese poetry organisation in Tokyo, as well as a translator of Korean webcomics and for K-pop music distribution channels. They write to decentre the linguistic hegemony of the English language through stories that evoke nostalgia for the present. Boo identifies as fully Thai regardless of DNA test results.

Patti Buff is an Undiscovered Voices winner (2016), received an honourable mention for the New Voices Award at the 2019 Capital Crime Festival, and earned an honourable mention for the Amazon Publishing New Voices Award 2021. A native Minnesotan, she currently lives in disgustingly beautiful Bavaria, Germany with her family.

Satish Shewhorak was born in the North West and spent his summers in sunny Mauritius, the tropical paradise where his parents were born. Satish ran an animation studio before earning his doctorate in motion capture and becoming a games animation lecturer where he regularly writes short scripts for students to direct actors using performance capture. He is currently working on a new series with his wife, Gabrielle Kent. Rani Reports, features a girl who wants to be an investigative journalist and her exciting adventures with her rambunctious Mauritian grandma!

Sarah grew up in Salisbury, dreaming of a career as a writer and performer. Instead, she became an accountant! After a fifteen-year career, she decided to answer her original calling and completed her first novel. HER PERFECT TWIN was published in 2022, and her second novel HER SWEET REVENGE published in 2023 . She has also published the HOW TO SLAY books with Boldwood and has a speculative rom-com, THE DIVERGING LIVES OF BETHANY RAVEN coming from HQ in 2026. She lives in Devon with her husband and very spoiled rescue dog.