Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011.
Jacqueline Margaret Kay, is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011.
Elizabeth Emma Williams, known professionally as Emma Kennedy, is an English actress, lawyer, comedian, travel writer, television presenter and author.
Gloria De Piero is a British broadcaster and former Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield from 2010 to 2019.
Laura Juliet Kuenssberg is a British journalist who presents the BBC's Sunday morning politics show. She was succeeded as Political Editor of BBC News by Chris Mason.
Harriett Sarah Gilbert is an English writer, academic and broadcaster, particularly of arts and book programmes on the BBC World Service. She is the daughter of the writer Michael Gilbert. Besides World Book Club on the World Service, she also presents A Good Read on BBC Radio 4. Before the programme was cancelled, she also presented the BBC World Service programme The Strand.
Mary Ann Kennedy, is a Scottish musician, singer, choral director, composer, radio and television presenter, and music producer.
Sara Patricia Pascoe is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster for Channel 4 and QI for BBC Two.
Sarah Bartlett Churchwell is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her expertise is in 20th- and 21st-century American literature and cultural history, especially the 1920s and 1930s. She has appeared on British television and radio and has been a judge for the Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She is the director of the Being Human festival and the author of three books: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby; and Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream. In April 2021, she was long listed for the Orwell Prize for Journalism.
Sarah Deborah Champion is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012.
Hans Werner Kettenbach was a German journalist and writer.
Kerry-Anne Mendoza is an English writer, journalist and social commentator. She is the former editor-in-chief of The Canary, a left-wing new media outlet.
Lisa Eckhart is an Austrian poetry slammer and cabaret artist.
Tessa Szyszkowitz is an Austrian historian, journalist and author.
Laurent Warlouzet is a French academic who is currently Professor of European History at Paris Sorbonne University.
Anja Kampmann is a German poet and author.
Martina Clavadetscher. is a Swiss playwright and book author. She was the recipient of several awards amongst them also the Swiss Book Prize of 2021.
Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is a German-Iranian non-binary journalist and author.
Slata Roschal, also known as Slata Kozakova, is a German writer and literary scholar.
Dana von Suffrin is a German writer. She became known for her first two novels, Otto (2019) and Nochmal von vorn (2024), telling stories about German-Jewish families in Germany and Israel. For both works, she received literary awards.
