Graeme Roberts
Graeme Roberts is a writer of fiction, poetry and critical reviews. He works as a journalist for Manchester-based publication Basketball Magazine.
Graeme graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 with a first-class degree in English and Creative Writing.
Graeme has a broad range of literary idols, including William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Philip Larkin and Albert Camus.
Rosie Parry is a writer (of fiction, travel and critical reviews), blogger and avid Kindle book reviewer. She has just graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 with a 2:1 degree in English and Creative Writing.
Rosie is going to write from the UAE until December as she will be working as a support tutor for children with learning difficulties in an Arabic school. Rosie's favourite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
Lindsay Bradley
Lindsay Bradley is a scriptwriter who also writes critical reviews and occasionally short stories. Lindsay graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 with a 2:1 Degree in English.
Her dissertation script, Deadline, was selected to be performed at Script in Hand showcase 2013.
Lindsay's favourite novel is Lord of the Flies by William Golding and has a love for Dashboard Confessional.
Cassie Degg is a self-published fiction writer under the pseudonym J.W. Carter, named after the first original character she created in a prose piece whilst studying English and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
She has also mentored a high school student in the Portico Prize for Young Writers, assisting them in securing first place in the Poetry category in 2012. She is currently running for a trustee position with the British Youth Council in-between meeting Michelle Keegan, theatre visits, pub crawls and tweeting.
Cassie's literary tastes range from Ian McEwan, Stuart Maconie and Patricia Cornwell to lesser-known authors such as Cath Staincliffe.
Louise Soothill
Charles Hay
Charles Hay is a writer, archaeologist, drawer of many things, guitar and ukulele player, degu owner, homebrew brewer and obsessive fan of Pink Floyd and bands which sound like Pink Floyd.
With an English and History BA and an Archaeology MA under his belt, he is currently working on a novel or two alongside several other impractically ambitious projects.
Charles' main literary heroes are Iain Banks, Olaf Stapledon, Philip K Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Kurt Vonnegut. That being said, don't take him for a science fiction nerd, he enjoys many, many authors not of that genre. He is in fact just a nerd of everything. A nerd of the world.
Her dissertation script, Deadline, was selected to be performed at Script in Hand showcase 2013.
Lindsay's favourite novel is Lord of the Flies by William Golding and has a love for Dashboard Confessional.
She has also mentored a high school student in the Portico Prize for Young Writers, assisting them in securing first place in the Poetry category in 2012. She is currently running for a trustee position with the British Youth Council in-between meeting Michelle Keegan, theatre visits, pub crawls and tweeting.
Cassie's literary tastes range from Ian McEwan, Stuart Maconie and Patricia Cornwell to lesser-known authors such as Cath Staincliffe.
Louise Soothill
Louise Soothill recently graduated from Manchester Metropolitan
University with a 2:1 degree in English. She writes poetry and completed a
portfolio titled ‘Carving Rocks’ for her dissertation as well as writing in her
spare time.
Louise is influenced by many poets, but particularly female
writers such as Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Claire Pollard and Frances Leviston.
She is also inspired by a diverse range of novelists including: Zadie Smith, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Chuck Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh.
With an English and History BA and an Archaeology MA under his belt, he is currently working on a novel or two alongside several other impractically ambitious projects.
Charles' main literary heroes are Iain Banks, Olaf Stapledon, Philip K Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Kurt Vonnegut. That being said, don't take him for a science fiction nerd, he enjoys many, many authors not of that genre. He is in fact just a nerd of everything. A nerd of the world.
Great write-up! Writing is a talent, and it must not be wasted. As with everything that we had been entrusted, we should let it grow and share it with the world.> life long learner
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