Camilla Sucre, a Trinidadian-American artist who resides in Baltimore, has found a different kind of home in narrative illustration. Interested in illustration since she was a child, her dreams are finally coming true as she loves to explore new avenues of artmaking and illustration and new stories to tell.

Camilla also has a passion for film and a natural love of movies and hopes she can one day express that in her work. Her favourite film is currently ‘The Red Shoes’, an old movie – which is very fitting because she loves old things!

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists.

Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast.

Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.

Caspar Salmon is a writer who lives in leafy north London, having grown up in picturesque France. He writes and broadcasts about this and that for a living – mostly cinema – and enjoys seeing friends, swimming, and reading. He has two gorgeous children.

Ekaterina Trukhan creates illustrations for children’s books, magazines and products. She is also the author of several children’s books. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London and now she lives the digital nomad life, travelling with her husband and their dog.

Yas Imamura is an Asian American illustrator living in Portland, Oregon.

Her works include collaborations with Anthropologie, Sanrio as well as her growing list of children’s books. Her preferred materials are gouache and watercolour and often finds herself drawn to projects that are playful, mysterious and a little offbeat.

Tom Adams is a children’s author who juggles his time between writing books and making television programmes. He was born in Yorkshire but now lives in Kent with his wife and their three teenage sons. When he’s not at his desk writing, he’s often scribbling ideas for books and TV shows down in his notebook. He likes lots of sports, cooking, walking and playing the guitar but is slowly realising that his children are better than him at most of these things. He dislikes weeding the garden but does it anyway.

Britta Teckentrup grew up in a town called Wuppertal. She moved to London in 1988 to study illustration and fine art at St Martin’s College and the Royal College of Art and ended up staying in England for 17 years. Britta has created over 40 books, translated into 20 different languages. Britta’s illustrations have appeared in magazines, on homewares, clothes and packaging. Britta now lives and works in Berlin with her artist husband, son Vincent, and their cat.

Harriet Lynas is an award-winning children’s book illustrator who lives in Cambridge with her husband and their son. She has always loved doodling since she was able to hold a pencil and decided to become an illustrator at the age of ten. After studying Visual Communication Design at University, Harriet worked as a graphic designer in the fashion industry before becoming a children’s book illustrator. When she is not drawing, she enjoys cooking exotic foods and country walking.

ED SMITH is an award-winning food and recipe writer. After leaving a career as a lawyer for a life in food, he trained as a chef, worked briefly in restaurants and pop-ups, and now cooks, consults, writes, and spends a bit too much time on social media (@rocketandsquash). His cookbooks include ‘Crave; recipes arranged by flavour to suit your mood and appetite’, which was named cookery book of the year in 2022, ‘On the Side’ and ‘The Borough Market Cookbook’. And he regularly contributes recipe columns to the likes of Waitrose Food, Waitrose Weekend, BBC Good Food magazine, Delicious and The Sunday Times Magazine.
Ed and his work have won and been shortlisted on multiple occasions for numerous awards, including Best Cookery Book, Best Cookery Writer and Best Food Writer at both The Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards, and the Guild of Food Writers Awards.
His next book, ‘Good Eggs’, will be published March 2024.

Laura Mucha is ex-lawyer turned award-winning poet and author. Some of her writing is funny (or at least she hopes it is . . . ), but some is serious and addresses important things that aren’t always talked about. She often thinks about how we live and what we can do to make our lives, and the lives of others, a little bit better.

Her writing has won multiple international awards and been featured on TV, radio and public transport, as well as in hospitals, hospices, prisons, books, magazines and newspapers around the world. When she isn’t writing, she spends her time visiting schools around the world and working with organisations such as UNICEF to try to improve the lives of children. She is also Author-in-Residence in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Laura has travelled to every continent of the world (at least twice!) and now lives in London with her husband and son.

Sarah Massini has had a varied creative career as a corporate graphic designer, a children’s book art editor, and now as the acclaimed illustrator of many picture books including The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Prince. She lives in Sussex in the United Kingdom with her ecologist husband and her Scottie-dog Coco.