Clive Martin is a journalist from London who writes about subcultures and nightlife for VICE, the Face and GQ Style. He made his name documenting Britain's big nights out, and has mostly recovered.

Jimmy McIntosh writes about pubs and drinking for the Fence, and tours grotty boozers on TikTok with the air of a budget Jonathan Meades. He now edits the magazine Sir!

Jade Angeles Fitton is a writer and journalist who contributes to the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Spectator and Vogue. Her hybrid memoir, Hermit, is about finding freedom in a wild place, which in her case meant Devon.

Fergus Butler-Gallie is a writer and Anglican priest. His books include A Field Guide to the English Clergy and Touching Cloth, a memoir of life as a young curate. He won the P.G. Wodehouse Society essay prize, which seems about right.

John Phipps is a reporter and critic based in London and a fiction editor at the Fence. His work appears in 1843, the FT and GQ, and has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

Roisin Lanigan is a writer and editor based in London and Belfast; her debut novel, I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There, is a horror story for generation rent.

Seamas O'Reilly is a writer from Derry whose memoir Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? was a bestseller. He lives in London with rather a lot of siblings.

Josh Mcloughlin is a writer and critic from Merseyside and the editor-in-chief of New Critique. His work has appeared in the Times, the New Statesman, the Spectator and the London Magazine.

Bron Maher is a media reporter who covers the journalism industry, latterly for Press Gazette and A Media Operator.

Charlie Baker is the founding editor of the Fence, which he launched in 2018 with, by his own account, almost no experience of journalism.