Alice Jolly
Alice Jolly’s most recent novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile was published in 2018 by Unbound. It was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize for memoir and the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for one of her short stories. She was awarded an O.Henry Prize in 2021 (for the top twenty short stories published in the US in that year). Her new novel The Matchbox Girl (which is about Dr Asperger) will be published by Bloomsbury in autumn 2025. Alice also reviews for a number of newspapers and literary journals
Houman BarekAt
Houman Barekat reviews books for various outlets including the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Irish Times and the Spectator; and theatre for the New York Times. He is co-editor (with Robert Barry and David Winters) of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online. He lives in London.
Jude Cook
Jude Cook lives in London and studied English literature at UCL. His novels are BYRON EASY (2013) and JACOB’S ADVICE (2020). He reviews fiction for the Guardian, the Spectator, Literary Review, New Statesman, TLS, the i-Paper, Review 31and 3AM Magazine. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The London Magazine, The Stockholm Review, The Moth, The Tangerine, The Honest Ulsterman, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, Aeon/ Psyche, Structo, Storgy, Litro, Long Story Short and Staple. His radio plays Thousand Cranes (2020) and The Rival (2021) were broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is also an editor for The Literary Consultancy, and holds a PhD in The Contemporary Novel from Kent Canterbury University. He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Westminster.