The creative writers
The following writers took part in this project:
Beverley Addy is a freelance writer, journalist and producer for print, radio, TV, film and the web. She works across the North of England from her base in Yorkshire.
Christopher Barnes' first poetry collection Lovebites is published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh, price £2.40. He has a BBC webpage (click on SECTION 28). London's South Bank Centre recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never Had" - click here to hear the poem
Jackie Collins lives by the sea and hopes to be as rich as her famous namesake one day. She has been a writer since getting a lockable diary aged nine.
Rachel Cunliffe lives in Whitley Bay and has written poetry since primary school. She has an M.A. in Writing Studies. She currently works as a social worker. Rachel has no science background whatsoever but finds it creepy that science now creates creatures that once made myths.
Barbara Gordon is a writer of fiction, and a member of a writing group in Darlington. Of particular interest are the themes of science and technology and how these issues may contrast with our morals and ethics.
Catherine Graham is winner of the Northern Voices Poetry Award 2008. In 2007 she was awarded the Northumberland Writers' Special Award for most promising poet. She is winner of a number of poetry competitions and has had work published in a number of magazines and anthologies including a recent Tyneside/Irish anthology Two Rivers Meet (Revival Press, Ireland and Northern Voices, Tyneside).
Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington; member of Vane Women, the writing, performing and publishing collective; Arts Council ‘Northern Promise Award’ (2003); published in a range of magazines, in anthologies, and on the web; first pamphlet Puritan Games (Vane Women Press, 2001); full collection, Sitting Among the Hoppers (Arrowhead Press, 2004).
David Mason writes in many genres and several years of creative writing courses have closed the gap between a devious imagination, and print. His work includes a fantasy novel and scripts for theatre/TV and radio, all of which he hopes one day will be published/produced
Stevie Ronnie writes poems and sometimes stories that sometimes get published and read. He is currently in the final stages of a creative writing MA at Newcastle University and a pamphlet of his poems is due to be published by Sand Press in 2007.