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Jan Brewerton is an artist and printmaker, based in Devon and Shropshire.  She studied Fine Art at Coventry University and at Goldsmiths College in London.  Her work is inspired by the domestic environment, the natural world and by travel.  She uses clean lines and bright fresh colours in her depictions of everyday objects and artefacts. She is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

David Briggs is a Bristol-based poet, teacher and musician. He has published several collections of poetry, including Rain Rider (Salt, 2013), described as a book of ‘echoes and intricacies’. His work ranges from the personal to the political.  The intriguingly titled pamphlet Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016) contains a sequence of lyric poems.

Verne Bright (1893 – 1977) was an American poet, as well as being a newspaper journalist and an English teacher. His work often focuses on the natural world and has been published in magazines and newspapers, as well as in his non-fiction book Mountain Man (1948) which tells how the descendants of Daniel Boone came to Oregon.

Edwin Brock (1927 – 1997) was included in the prestigious Penguin Modern Poets 8 in 1966 and was the author of several poetry collections, including Five Ways To Kill A Man (1990). He also wrote one novel and a memoir, Here. Now. Always. (1977). He was poetry editor of Ambit from 1960 until his death in 1997.

Gail Brodholt is painter and printmaker whose work often portrays contemporary urban landscapes – places that she says often go unnoticed as people hurry through. She was born in South London to immigrant parents, her father being Norwegian and her mother from Trinidad. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

Carole Bromley lives in York and writes for both adults and children. She is the winner of a number of prizes including the Bridport, the Hamish Canham Award and the Caterpillar Prize. She has published three collections of poetry with Smith/Doorstop: A Guided Tour of the Ice House (2011), The Stonegate Devil (2015) and Blast Off (for 7-10 year olds) and one with Valley Press, The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster (2020). Carole is a Stanza rep and runs poetry surgeries.