Will Hayward is a multi award winning journalist and columnist based in Wales specialising in politics and investigative journalism. He is the Acting Political Editor of WalesOnline, the Western Mail and South Wales Echo where he is also a popular columnist. He has a passion for reporting on a huge range of issues around equality, poverty, climate change and domestic violence. For Will political reporting is not about the politicians but the people their day to day decisions affect. His new book Lockdown Wales: How Covid-9 Affected Wales is available now. 

Daryl Leeworthy is a writer and historian. He is the Rhys Davies Research Fellow at the South Wales Miners’ Library at Swansea University, where he continues to research the historical experience of the South Wales Coalfield. He has written widely on Welsh history and literature and is the author of Labour Country (2018) and A Little Gay History of Wales (2019). His biography of groundbreaking TV writer, scientist and political activist Elaine Morgan, Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen is available now. 

Peter Benson is the author of eight novels, and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He has also published short stories, screenplays and poetry, and his work has been adapted for television and radio, and translated into several languages. His previous novel, The South in Winter (2017) was published by Alma Books. Peter's latest novel The Stromness Dinner is available now. 

Angela Graham is a BAFTA Cymru-winning film-maker and journalist. She has produced programmes for BBC, ITV, S4C and Channel 4 and was Development Producer of The Story of Wales. She turned to writing full time in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in The North, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Wales, The Ogham Stone, The Open Ear, The Interpreter’s House and other journals. An award-winning short story writer, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019. She is currently finishing a novel and engaged in a prose/poetry project on Place and Displacement in the context of urban violence. Her debut collection of short stories A City Burning is available now. www.angelagraham.org.