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.

GUEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

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