Writers

AK Blakemore is a poet and novelist. Her first novel, The Manningtree Witches, won the Desmond Elliott Prize; she lives in London.

Adam Steiner is a writer and music critic based in London and Coventry, and the author of a study of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral. He has written for The Quietus, Spin and Clash.

Alex Fleming-Brown is a journalist who writes for the Spectator, the Critic and the Fence, and has worked in BBC current affairs.

Alexander Cohen is an arts critic who writes for the Fence and the Critic, usually about theatre.

Alexandra Marraccini is an essayist, critic and art historian living in London. Her first book, We the Parasites, is out now; she writes for the TLS, Artforum and the LA Review of Books.

Amber Medland is a writer whose debut novel, Wild Pets, was published by Faber. She writes for the London Review of Books, the Guardian and the Paris Review.

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer from London who spent fourteen years on QI and co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. His novels include The Last Day.

Andrew Kersley is a freelance journalist covering politics, technology and the media for Wired, Private Eye and the Observer, among others.

Anna Sergi is a professor of criminology at the University of Essex and an expert on the Italian mafias, particularly the 'Ndrangheta, on which she has written several books.

Antonia Bentel is a writer from New York who lives in London. Her work has appeared in the Fence, Conde Nast Traveller and Harper's Bazaar.

Archie Cornish is a writer and academic specialising in Renaissance literature, currently at the University of Sheffield, who also writes for the Critic.

Asad Raza is an artist, curator and writer based in New York whose work has appeared in n+1 and the New York Times.

Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and two authorised Jeeves novels in homage to P.G. Wodehouse. He writes for the Times, the Telegraph and the New York Times.

Bertie Brandes is a writer who co-founded the satirical magazine The Mushpit and has written for Vice, the Times and the Guardian.

Bethany Elliott is a freelance journalist specialising in Russia and Eastern Europe. She writes for UnHerd, the Critic and the Fence.

Brian Ng is a writer and critic, originally from New Zealand and now in Paris, who contributes to Artforum, the Guardian and the Financial Times.

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

Camilla Bell-Davies is a freelance journalist based in Belgrade who writes about the Balkans for the Financial Times, the Economist and the Guardian.

Caspar Salmon is a film critic and broadcaster who writes for the Guardian, Prospect and Sight & Sound.

Cathy Thomas is a writer and dramatist who lives in London. Her debut book, Islanders, was published by Virago, and her short fiction has appeared in the Stinging Fly and the Fence.

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

Charlotte Ivers is a journalist who was the restaurant critic for the Sunday Times and previously a political correspondent at Times Radio.

Chloe Sisson is a freelance writer living in East London whose life writing has appeared in the Fence.

Chris Black is a writer and brand consultant who co-hosts the podcast How Long Gone and writes the 'Pulling Weeds' column for GQ.

Christopher Kissane is a historian and writer based in London. He is the author of Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe, and writes for the Irish Times, the Guardian and the FT.

Ciaran Thapar is a writer and youth worker in south London. His book Cut Short, on youth violence and the city, is out now; he writes for the Guardian and GQ.

Claire Lowdon is a novelist and critic. Her first novel, Left of the Bang, is set among London's twenty-somethings, and she reviews fiction for the TLS, the Sunday Times and the Spectator, usually without flinching.

Clare Considine is a culture journalist and broadcaster who writes about music for the Guardian, the Face and Dazed. Her book Drumz of the South charts the dubstep years; she now files from Belfast.

Claudia Cockerell edits the Londoner's Diary at the London Standard and writes for the Fence. She spends her working life at other people's parties.

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.

Dan Beaumont is a DJ and nightlife entrepreneur who opened Dalston Superstore, Dance Tunnel and Voodoo Ray's. He has a show on NTS and strong opinions about London after dark.

Dan Brotzel is a writer of comic fiction. His story collection Hotel du Jack is out from Sandstone Press, and he is the co-author of a novel told entirely in the emails of a hopeless writers' group.

Dan Richards is a writer and broadcaster. His books include Climbing Days and Outpost, and he co-wrote Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. He is happiest at the wild ends of the map.

Danielle Thom is a curator and writer, currently senior curator at the Design Museum and formerly Curator of Making at the Museum of London. Her doctorate was on satirical prints, which she has never quite left behind.

Davey Brett is a freelance journalist in Manchester who writes for the Guardian, VICE, the Face and the Fence.

David Whitehouse is a novelist and journalist. His books include Mobile Library and Bed, which won the Betty Trask Prize, and the true-crime memoir About a Son. He also writes for television.

Drew Lustman is a New York musician and producer who records as FaltyDL for Ninja Tune and Planet Mu. He has written for the Fence about keeping the beats going once the children arrive.

Ed Cumming is a journalist and critic who writes for the Telegraph and the Independent, usually about television he wishes were better.

Edward Platt is a journalist and author. His first book, Leadville, a biography of the A40, won a Somerset Maugham Award; he has since written about Hebron and the British floods, and contributes to the New Statesman and the TLS.

Ella Benson Easton is a British writer and researcher on culture and social movements who contributes to the Fence. A Scouser by origin, she now files from Guadalajara.

Ella Cory-Wright is a writer with three abandoned novels to her name, whose work appears in the Fence, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and Wired.

Ella Fox-Martens is an essayist and poet, born in Canada and raised in Australia and South Africa. She is staff literary critic at Soft Punk, writes for the Fence and the Drift, and now lives in London.

Emma Magnus is a freelance features writer in London with bylines in the London Standard, the FT, the Guardian, GQ and the Fence.

Eoin Redahan is a writer and journalist who grew up in Ireland and lives in London. He writes for the Fence, often about sport, and is the author of the children's book Arun and the Royal Rumpus.

Eva Wiseman is a columnist for the Observer Magazine, where she has written about culture, gender and modern life since 2008.

Eve Webster is a journalist who writes for the Fence and the Guardian and reports for BBC News Online.

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.

Fiona Mozley is a novelist and medievalist from York. Her debut, Elmet, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; her second, Hot Stew, moved the action to Soho. She lives in Edinburgh.

Fonie Mitsopoulou is a London-based writer and political reporter at City AM, previously an energy and climate reporter at POLITICO. She writes for Prospect and the Fence, and would rather not discuss the energy beat.

Francesca Bratton is a poet and critic who teaches English at Maynooth. Her academic study Visionary Company traced Hart Crane through the little magazines, which is roughly what she now does for a living.

Francis Martin is a journalist who writes for the Church Times and the Fence, covering the places where faith meets everything else.

Francisco Garcia is a London writer and journalist whose books, If You Were There and We All Go Into the Dark, are both about people who vanish. He contributes to the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

Frankie Lister-Fell is a freelance journalist in south-east London who reports on homelessness and migration for the Camden New Journal, Novara Media and the Face. She has been named Reporter of the Year and is not in it for the glamour.

G. Neil Martin is an honorary professor of psychology and the author of The Psychology of Comedy, among a dozen-odd books. He has written about the science of laughing for the Times and the Fence, which is harder than it sounds.

Gareth Watkins is a writer in Manchester who contributes to Tribune, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Fence, and hosts the Death Sentence podcast.

Gary Grimes is a freelance writer from Ireland, now in London, who covers pop culture and music for Dazed, Rolling Stone and the Fence.

Geoff Dyer has written more than a dozen genre-defying books, from But Beautiful to Out of Sheer Rage. His latest, Homework, is a memoir of growing up in Cheltenham; he now lives in Los Angeles.

George Francis Lee is a writer and editor from the North West and a co-founder of STAT Magazine. His work appears in the Guardian, the Big Issue and the Fence, usually about the places the national press forgets.

Grace Linden is a writer and art historian in London whose work appears in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Noema and the Fence. She also translates from the French.

Gus Carter is the deputy features editor of the Spectator, writing on immigration, farming and the state of the country, mostly from London.

Harriet Rix is a writer and tree-science consultant whose first book, The Genius of Trees, was longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. She writes for the FT, the LRB and the TLS.

Harry Shukman is a journalist and researcher at HOPE not hate. His book Year of the Rat, an account of a year spent undercover in the British far right, won the 2025 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Harvey James is a freelance writer from London who contributes to GQ, Wired and Vice, and whose fiction has appeared in the Fence.

Henry Dyer is an investigations reporter at the Guardian, formerly a politics reporter, who also turns up in Private Eye. He covers politics and the press, often the bits everyone else missed.

Henry Jeffreys is a drinks writer and the author of Empire of Booze. He was named Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and co-hosts the Intoxicating History podcast, which is exactly as enjoyable a job as it sounds.

Henry Wismayer is an essayist and travel writer in London whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic and Noema, usually from somewhere a long way off.

Hugh Morris is a freelance writer and editor in London who writes about music and culture for the Guardian, Pitchfork and the Fence, and is an editor at VAN Magazine.

Hussein Kesvani is a journalist and the author of Follow Me, Akhi, on the online world of British Muslims. He co-hosts the podcast Trashfuture, and posts more than is strictly advisable.

Ian Martin is an Emmy-winning comedy writer who worked on The Thick of It and Veep, having first been hired as the former's swearing consultant. He is also the architecture columnist for the Architects' Journal.

Ian Trueger writes about food, money and the places they meet, for the FT, the Washington Post and the Fence, where he spent six weeks on private equity's takeover of the British restaurant. He is writing a book about pigs.

Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist in London who contributes to the Guardian, the FT and Slate. Her first novel, Deep Down, came out in 2023.

Isobel Thompson is a journalist who was previously a writer and editor in Vanity Fair's London office and now writes for the Economist, the FT and Vogue.

Jack Beaumont is a reporter turned teacher who writes for the Fence about education and Britain's most vulnerable pupils, a beat he now has rather more skin in.

Jack Goulder is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian and BBC Science Focus.

Jack Sheehan is an Irish writer and historian based in New York, with bylines in the Guardian, the Washington Post and the New York Times. He is a history PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, which he mentions more than is strictly necessary.

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.

Jake Warren is a journalist and documentary maker who reports on true stories from the world's stranger edges, including, for the Fence, the tech bros trying to reinvent mercenary warfare.

James Bloodworth is a journalist from Burnham-on-Sea and the author of Hired, his account of six months undercover in low-wage Britain. He also wrote The Myth of Meritocracy, the title of which tells you most of what you need to know.

James Ramsden is a food writer and co-owner of the east London restaurants Pidgin and Magpie. He has written several cookbooks and co-hosts a food podcast that is mostly not about food.

James Riding is an award-winning journalist and the living markets editor at Inside Housing. He reviews books regularly for the Times and contributes essays to the Fence, Prospect and the Literary Review.

James Waddell is a writer and critic who covers art, theatre and the early modern period for the Economist, the TLS and the Fence. He has a PhD from UCL and is not shy about the early modern period.

Jamie Fewery is a novelist and journalist whose books include Our Life in a Day and The Way Back. He has written for the Telegraph, Wired and the Bookseller, and lives in Berkhamsted.

Jane Rankin-Reid is a writer, curator and art critic who has written for the Guardian and Le Monde, having spent the 1980s in downtown New York. She now lives in Tasmania, which is about as far from downtown New York as it is possible to get.

Jess Conway is a writer who has contributed to the Fence, digging among the fossilised remains of Web 1.0.

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!

Jo Hamya is a novelist from east London and the author of Three Rooms and The Hypocrite, the latter of which won a Somerset Maugham Award. She co-hosts the Booker Prize Podcast.

Joe Bishop is a screenwriter and former Vice staff writer from south London who hosts the Fence's podcast Money's No Object, about money, power and luxury, none of which he has.

Joe Cresswell is a writer who contributes to the Fence, where he has investigated, among other things, a legendary dinner at a Yorkshire curry house.

Joe Fattorini is a wine writer and broadcaster who presented ITV's The Wine Show and spent fifteen years as the Herald's wine critic. He has been named Wine Communicator of the Year and will tell you the bottle is fine.

Joe Kennedy is a cultural critic from the north-east of England and the author of Authentocrats and Games Without Frontiers. He writes on literature, music and football, and teaches English literature.

Joe Muggs is a music writer who has covered bass and electronic culture for the Guardian, Mixmag and the Wire since 2000. He is the author of Bass, Mids, Tops, an oral history of soundsystem culture, and still occasionally DJs.

Joe Zadeh is a journalist based in Newcastle and a contributing writer for Noema, where he writes longform features about time, charisma and concrete. His essay on the tyranny of time did the rounds.

John Banville has written more than twenty novels and won the Booker Prize. He remains unsatisfied.

John Merrick is a London-based writer and an editor at Verso, with essays in New Left Review, the Guardian and the Baffler. He edited Raphael Samuel's Workshop of the World and writes mostly about class, culture and history.

John Nugent writes for The Fence.

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.

John Saward is a writer whose profiles and essays have appeared in Vanity Fair, Vice and the Believer.

Jonathan Nunn is a food and city writer based in London, the founder of the newsletter Vittles and the editor of London Feeds Itself. He writes about the city's food mostly by getting on a bus to the end of it.

Jordan Michelman is a coffee writer and co-founder of Sprudge, the Portland-based coffee publication. He won a James Beard Award and co-wrote The New Rules of Coffee.

Josh Barrie is a food and drink writer who has worked at the i paper and the Mirror and now writes for the London Standard and the New European. He is the author of An Opinionated Guide to London Cheap Eats and lives in south London.

Josh Dell is a writer on food and wine who has contributed to Vice, Wired and the Telegraph. He trained at Le Cordon Bleu and now lives in Paris.

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.

Josiah Gogarty is a writer at British GQ who also contributes to UnHerd and Prospect.

Juno Kelly is a London-based journalist who writes about internet culture, fashion and mental health for British Vogue, the Independent and Dazed.

Kieran Morris is managing editor of the Fence. He has written long features for the Guardian, GQ and the Financial Times Magazine.

Killian Faith-Kelly is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Fence, the Radio Times and the Press Gazette, often on Northern Ireland.

Kyle MacNeill is a freelance culture writer based in Manchester who covers fashion, music and internet subcultures for the Guardian, the Face and the New York Times.

Laura Beveridge is a journalist who has written for the New Statesman, PoliticsJOE and the Fence. A St Andrews graduate, she was named the Washington Post's 2026 Stern-Bryan fellow.

Lauren Bensted is a writer based in London whose journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer and the Fence. She was selected for the BBC Writers' programme in 2024.

Lauren Cochrane writes for The Fence.

Leo Robson is a literary critic and a contributing writer at the New Statesman who also writes for the New Yorker, Harper's and the TLS.

Lotte Brundle is a journalist and digital writer at Country Life, and a former editorial assistant at the Fence. She has also written for the Times, the New Statesman and the Spectator.

Louis Elton is a cultural researcher and strategist in London who writes for the Fence and UnHerd, and on his Substack, Nation of Artisans.

Louis Staples is a freelance culture writer from Scotland who covers TV, queerness and the internet for New York Magazine, the Guardian and the FT, and writes a monthly column for British GQ.

Lucas Oakeley is a writer and journalist who has contributed to GQ, the Guardian and the Economist. His debut novel, Nearly Departed, was published in 2025.

Luke Brown is a novelist and editor from Fleetwood and the author of My Biggest Lie and Theft. He teaches at the Centre for New Writing in Manchester.

Luke Dunne is a writer and film critic from Dublin, where he founded the site Film In Dublin. His work has appeared in the Fence and elsewhere.

Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who teaches at the University of Birmingham. His collection Notes on the Sonnets won the Forward Prize.

Maazin Buhari is a London-based food writer, born in Chennai, whose work has appeared in Eater London and Whetstone.

Madeleine Brettingham is a comedy writer whose television credits include Have I Got News For You and The News Quiz; she has lately turned to stand-up.

Madeline Grant is a journalist who was the Telegraph's parliamentary sketchwriter and is now an assistant editor at the Spectator.

Marco Watt is a writer who contributes to the Fence, usually on music and London's club scene.

Margaret McCartney is a GP in Glasgow, a writer and a regular voice on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health. She is the author of The Patient Paradox.

Margaret Mitchell is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Spectator and the Fence.

Mark Blacklock is a novelist and cultural historian who teaches at Birkbeck. His novels I'm Jack and Hinton were both published by Granta.

Matt Nida is a creative producer, writer and podcaster from London who works on comedy and climate at OKRE and runs the Really Strange Record Club. He writes occasionally for the Fence.

Mattha Busby is a journalist who covers drugs, psychedelics and health policy for the Guardian, VICE and others; his first book, Should All Drugs Be Legalized?, came out in 2022. He files from Vancouver.

Max Daly is a journalist who spent years as VICE's global drugs editor and co-wrote Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked on Drugs. He now writes the Narcomania newsletter, on the grounds that the subject wasn't going to cover itself.

Max Norman is a writer and critic covering books and art for the New York Review of Books, The Nation and Apollo. He lives in New York.

Maximilian Hess is a political-risk analyst and the author of Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict Between Russia and the West. He writes a column for Al Jazeera and runs a London advisory firm.

Megan Nolan is a writer from Waterford. Her second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, was longlisted for the Women's Prize; she lives in New York.

Michael Gillard is an investigative journalist who has written for the Guardian and Sunday Times Insight team and is the author of Untouchables, on corruption at Scotland Yard. He now files the Upsetter newsletter.

Michael Holden is a writer and former Guardian columnist whose collection All Ears grew out of overheard conversations; his memoir The Reluctant Carer is being adapted for television.

Michelle Taylor is a literary scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, who writes about books for the New Yorker, the FT and the Fence.

Mike Jakeman is a freelance journalist and economist who writes about Asia and the economics of sport for the Economist; his first book was about the future of Test cricket.

Miranda Sawyer is a journalist and broadcaster who has written about pop culture for the Observer for longer than she'll admit.

Misti Traya is a former actress turned writer whose personal essays on family and food have appeared in the Spectator and BBC Good Food. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence.

Molly Lipson is a freelance writer and filmmaker, based in London, whose work on culture and social justice has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Dazed.

Morgan Jones is a writer on politics whose work appears in the London Review of Books, the New Statesman and the Guardian; she co-edits Renewal and was born in Dublin.

Naomi Wood is a novelist; her story collection This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award.

Natalie Berry is a climber and journalist, editor-in-chief of UKClimbing and a former member of the GB climbing team; she has reported on sport climbing from two Olympic Games.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist and the author of We Need New Stories; she was born in Sudan and lives in London.

Nick Thompson is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in VICE, the Guardian, Air Mail and the Fence.

Nicole Fan is a Singapore-born writer and editor in London who covers technology and culture through the lens of Asian politics; she founded the magazine The Primer.

Olly Haynes is a freelance journalist covering politics, the environment and culture, much of it French, for the Guardian, the i and Novara Media; he co-hosts a podcast on French politics.

Olympia Campbell is a model and evolutionary anthropologist who has written for the Fence about the indignities of the fashion business; she has a PhD from UCL.

Ophira Gottlieb is a features writer and poet, drawn to music and literature, whose work has appeared in the Quietus, the Guardian, PN Review and the Fence.

Orlando Whitfield is a former art dealer and the author of All That Glitters, a memoir of his friendship with the convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick. It was shortlisted for the Nero Book Award.

Oskar Oprey is a writer and artist in London whose work has appeared in Artforum, Plaster, the Fence and the Whitney Review of New Writing.

Patrick Galbraith is a journalist and author of In Search of One Last Song, on Britain's vanishing birds; he writes for the Times, the Spectator and the TLS.

Paul Toner is a writer from Liverpool and the deputy editor of 10 and 10 Men; he has also written for Dazed, the Face and Highsnobiety, and lectures at the London College of Fashion.

Peter Carlyon is a freelance reporter and features writer with words in the Fence, Dispatch and the Londoner, usually pointed at property developers and other Londoners.

Phin Jennings is a writer and curator based in London who covers art for Frieze, Apollo, the Art Newspaper and the Financial Times.

Precious Adesina is a London-based arts and culture journalist whose work appears in the New York Times, BBC Culture and the Financial Times.

Ralf Webb is a writer whose poetry collection Rotten Days in Late Summer was shortlisted for the Forward Prize; his nonfiction book Strange Relations is out now.

Ray Philp is a journalist and critic who writes about music and culture for GQ, the Wire and Pitchfork, and was formerly reviews editor at Resident Advisor.

Rebecca Fallon grew up in New England and now lives in London; her writing has appeared in the Observer and the Fence.

Rebecca Watson is a novelist; her debut, little scratch, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and later staged at Hampstead Theatre.

Richard Smyth is a nature writer based in Bradford, the author of An Indifference of Birds and the novel The Woodcock, and a sometime Mastermind finalist on the subject of British birds.

Richard Woodall is a writer for the Fence, lately arguing that the 2012 Olympics were a harbinger of the dreadful decade to come.

Rob Palk is a novelist; his debut, Animal Lovers, is a comedy about divorce, mortality and badgers. He lives in Leicester.

Robbie Armstrong is a journalist and radio producer from Glasgow who writes about food and the arts for Vittles, Noble Rot and the Fence, and co-founded the Glasgow Bell.

Rory MacNeish is a writer for the Fence, where he has profiled an unlikely underground music sensation.

Rosa Lyster is a writer from Cape Town whose essays and reporting appear in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books and the Paris Review.

Rosie Hewitson is a writer and editor at Time Out London who covers nightlife, football and queer London for the Guardian, Vice and the Fence.

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.

Sachin Kureishi is a screenwriter who has written for film and television; in the Fence he wrote about a year spent caring for his father, Hanif.

Sally Howard is a journalist who covers gender and social trends, and the author of The Home Stretch, on who actually does the housework.

Sarah Haque is an investigative journalist and essayist in London whose work appears in the New York Review of Books, GQ and the Financial Times.

Saskia Solomon is a journalist based in London who writes for the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Fence.

Sejal Sukhadwala is a London food writer and the author of The Philosophy of Curry.

Snake Denton is a writer for the Fence, Vice and the Face who once almost went on Love Island.

Sophie Elmhirst is a journalist and the author of Maurice and Maralyn, an account of a couple lost at sea that won the 2024 Nero Book of the Year.

Sophie Heawood is a journalist and the author of a memoir, The Hungover Games, which is exactly as composed as it sounds.

Sophie Mackintosh is a novelist; her debut, The Water Cure, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Sophie Wilkinson is a freelance journalist in east London who writes about culture, politics and society, and made the BBC Radio 4 series Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal.

Stephen Smith is a former BBC Newsnight correspondent who writes about arts and culture and pens the Fence's television column, Off the Box.

Susannah Dickey is a poet and novelist from Derry; her novels are Tennis Lessons and Common Decency, and her poetry collection ISDAL won the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize.

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.

Tamlin Magee is a freelance writer on technology and culture for the Guardian, Wired and Vice, among others.

Tanjil Rashid is a writer and broadcaster, and culture editor of the New Statesman; he also makes documentaries for the BBC.

Thomas Gorton is a writer and editor; he was online editor at Dazed and has written for Vice, the Face and AnOther.

Thomas Howells is a London-based writer and editor on food, design and culture for the Financial Times, Wallpaper*, the Guardian and the Fence. His book An Opinionated Guide to London Wine was published by Hoxton Mini Press.

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a writer who divides his time between London and Oxford; his debut novel Shibboleth is a campus satire set at the university.

Tim Abrahams is a writer on architecture and design who contributes to the Spectator, the Critic and Architectural Record; he co-founded the imprint Machine Books.

Tim MacGabhann is an Irish writer; his novels include Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere. He has spent much of the last decade in Mexico City.

Tim Wyatt is a freelance journalist covering religion and social affairs for the Guardian, the Times and the BBC, among others.

Tom Nicholson is a freelance journalist who writes about culture, film and football for Esquire, the i and the FT, among others.

Tomas Weber is a writer in London whose reportage, often on science and human experience, has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, 1843, FT Magazine and Wired.

Tommy Gilhooly is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in the Literary Review, the Telegraph, Vittles and the Fence.

Will Buckley is a sportswriter and novelist; a former senior sports writer at the Observer, his first novel was The Man Who Hated Football.

William Rayfet Hunter is a writer from Manchester; his debut novel Sunstruck won the #Merky Books New Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.

William Vandyck is a comedy writer and former barrister who has written for BBC Radio 4 and television, as well as a number of children's books.

Yoel Noorali is a writer in London whose fiction and journalism have appeared in the Spectator, the Literary Review and the Fence.

Zara Meerza is a writer and documentary filmmaker; she has worked with the BBC, Vice and Warp Films, and writes for the HBO series Industry.