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Karen Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, UK, where she specializes in teaching fiction. She is an author and editor, and has edited two critical and creative anthologies: Writing a First Novel: Reflections on the Journey (2014) and High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories (2018). Her debut collection of short stories Brilliant Blue (2025) was published with Barbican Press. She is on Twitter @KarenStevens01. Jonathan Taylor is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Leicester University, UK. An author, editor, lecturer and critic, his books include the novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), the memoir Take Me Home (Granta, 2007), as well as three academic monographs - most recently, Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 (2018). He has taught Creative Writing and English in universities for over twenty years. He runs the popular blogs Everybody's Reviewing (www.everybodysreviewing.blogspot.co.uk) and Creative Writing at Leicester (www.creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.co.uk), and is on Twitter @crystalclearjt. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk. |
