Ruth Figgest is a novelist and short story writer and teaches on the Creative Writing Programme at the Towner Eastbourne which starts in October. Here she offers her top tips for writing.

Beth Miller is the author of six novels, including the bestselling The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright. She teaches on the Creative Writing Programme based in Worthing on Friday mornings. Here she offers her top writing tips.

Jacq is an award-winning short story writer, performed playwright and freelanced for many years as an arts writer for magazines and newspapers. Working with Rosie Chard, she is now leading a new course – the 10-week Introduction to Creative Writing – starting in May.

Rosie Chard is a novelist, freelance editor, writing coach/mentor, landscape architect and English language teacher. She has published three novels and has been a tutor on the Creative Writing Programme for many years.

Roy Mcfarlane FRSL is a poet, playwright and former youth and community worker born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage spending most of his years living in Wolverhampton and the Black Country, now residing in Brighton. He has published numerous poetry collections and teaches the Advanced Poetry course on Wednesday afternoons. 

Bethan Roberts is the author of five novels including My Policeman and the story of a 1950s policeman. She has been a tutor on the Creative Writing Programme for four years. Here she talks about her writing life.

Katy Massey writes fiction, scripts and memoir and teaches on the two-year Life Writing Programme.

Sharlene Teo is running a two-day course in June on Writing Otherness – how to write different perspectives from our own. Here she talks about her debut novel, her work as a creative writing lecturer and the importance of confronting our biases, privileges and stereotyped perceptions when writing fiction.

Longstanding CWP tutor Hannah Vincent has had a short story broadcast on Radio 4. The story, entitled Stew Woman, is part of the broadcaster’s Short Works series.