Professor Fred D’Aguiar
Department of English, Graduate Faculty, VirginiaTech, USA.
Ivan Mulcahy
Founder and Director of literary agency Mulcahy Conway Associates, Ivan Mulcahy was born in Dublin. His interests include memoir, biography, children’s fiction, crime and thriller writers.
Ruth Padel
Prizewinning poet, resident poet at Christ’s College Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society. She gave the Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures On Not Saying Everything in 2008 (Bloodaxe Books, 2010).
Anne Stevenson
American-British poet, critic and biographer, inaugural winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writers’ Award in 2002, recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
John Yorke
Controller Drama Production Studios, BBC, visiting Professor of TV Studies and former Newcastle University student.