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Writing - Non-Fiction

Solasta Lucky McIntyre

Solasta Lucky McIntyre is an interdisciplinary creative, somatic educator and psychotherapist at Sir With Sol Therapy. His current artistic practice is focused on writing memoir and screenplay, researching mixed gaelic-celtic ancestry, and multi-media documentary of their life as an autistic polyamorous bi-gender lesbian recovering from cptsd. He writes the What’s Healing Me Lately weekly on […]

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Anne Skomorowsky

Anne is a writer and practicing psychiatrist who lives in New York. She is working on a biography of the psychiatrist Helen Flanders Dunbar, who popularised the idea of mind/body medicine in the 1930s. Her first book, The Carriers, concerns unaffected carriers of the gene for Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited intellectual disability. She has […]

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Jessica Barnfield

Jessica is a fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize Novel Award in 2022, and she has since been shortlisted and longlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short story ‘Subsidence’ was runner-up in the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story […]

Autumn Writers Week

Emily Yates

Emily is the Head of Accessibility and Inclusive Design at human centred and inclusive design agency Mima, and a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy who was recently voted one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK by the Shaw Trust. She regularly writes on current affairs and disability issues having done so […]

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Jamie Currie

Jamie is a writer and teacher originally from Tighnabruaich but based in Fort William. He has written extensively about surf culture and personalities worldwide both in print and online, and co-authored Surf Atlas, published by gestalten in 2023. Recently his focus has turned to hill and trail running. He writes the popular Substack newsletter “Running […]

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