Your Voice, Your Style, Your Vision
Guest Authors
You can participate in live Q&A sessions with published/celebrity authors. Discover the secrets of their success, dive into discussions about the publishing industry, and apply their practical tips to enhance your own writing process.
SHORT STORY WORKSHOP
Katherine Mezzacappa will host a 'short story' workshop.
Writing short stories teaches a writer all kinds of skills. The short story offers a unity that the novel can never have, simply because of its length. The writer (and the reader) can hold the entire world of the short story in their mind at once. This makes the experience of writing (and reading) a great short story immensely powerful.
Katherine Mezzacappa
The Maiden of Florence was published by Fairlight Books in April 2024. Her short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines, on paper, on-line and in anthologies. She also works as a manuscript assessor for The Literary Consultancy and on the New Writers Scheme of the Romantic Novelists Association, as she loves helping nurture new writers. She is also a reviewer for the Historical Novel Society’s quarterly journal she is the project leader for the 2026 conference, to be held in Maynooth, Co Kildare
Dr Helga Jensen
She is an award-winning British/Danish best-selling author and journalist. Her debut novel was a winning entry in the 2017 Montegrappa First Fiction competition at Dubai’s Emirates Literary Festival. Helga's best-selling novel, Fly me to Paris, was a finalist for the 2024 Popular Romantic Fiction Award.
Helga holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing, along with a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University. Helga, who lived in the Middle East for much of her life, continues to work as a freelance journalist when not writing books.
Tim Parks
He is a British novelist who has lived in Italy since 1981. He is also an author of nonfiction, a translator from Italian to English, and a professor of literature.
Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981, he moved to Italy, where he has lived ever since.
He has written twenty novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize)
During the nineties, he wrote two personal non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy, Italian Neighbours and An Italian Education, books that won acclaim and popularity for their anthropological wryness. These were complemented in 2002 by A Season with Verona, a grand overview of Italian life as seen through the business and passion of football, and Italian Ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo.