Jonathan Bate
Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
University of Warwick

Paula Byrne
Biographer and writer

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

Rachel Cusk
Writer

Claudia Ferradas-Moi
Lecturer, English Literature
Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández
Buenos Aires

Victoria Glendinning
Novelist, biographer, critic
Former President of English PEN

W.N.Herbert
Poet and Senior Lecturer, School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Kathryn Hughes
Biographer, Contributing editor to Prospect magazine
Professor of the Life Writing course, University of East Anglia

John McRae
Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies
University of Nottingham

Blake Morrison
Writer and Professor of Creative and Life Writing
Goldsmiths, University of London

Dr Ankhi Mukherjee
Lecturer and Research Fellow
University of Oxford

Grace Nichols
Poet

Andrew O'Hagan
Writer

Alan Pulverness
Director of Studies at the Norwich Institute for Language Education
Former Co-chair of the Oxford Coinference

Anne Whitehead
Senior Lecturer
English Literature, Language & Linguistics
University of Newcastle

Juliet Wragg-Morley
Web and Information Manager
Literature Department, British Council