White Open Spaces

Courttia Newland is the author of seven works of fiction. His latest, The Gospel According to Cane, was published in 2013 and has been optioned by Cowboy Films as TV Serial for the BBC. He was nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and The Frank O’ Conner award, as well as numerous others. His short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on Radio 4. He is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing. Ian Marchant has written two novels, In Southern Waters and The Battle for Dole Acre, and two works of non-fiction, The Longest Crawl and Parallel Lines. He used to run a second-hand bookshop, and is a comedian, singer, songwriter and cabaret performer.