Simon Armitage
Poet and author

Jan Blake
Storyteller

Val Bloom
Performance poet and educationalist

Elleke Boehmer
Professor of Literatures in English,
Royal Holloway College, University of London

Peter Childs
Professor of English Studies and Deputy Head, School of Humanities,
University of Gloucestershire

Robert Eaglestone
Senior Lecturer
Royal Holloway College, University of London
Editor, Outledge Critical Thinkers

Amanda Hopkinson
Director, British Centre for Literary Translation
University of East Anglia

Romesh Gunesekera
Author

Sean Matthews
Director, D.H. Lawrence Research Centre,
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature,
School of English studies, University of Nottingham
Co-Chair of the Oxford Conference in 2004 & 2005

Graham Mort
Postgraduate Director, Creative Writing
University of Lancaster

George Szirtes
Poet and translator