Formerly Theatre in Northumberland Schools, since 2018 based at Amble.

A site specific theatre company based in Northumberland.

Naomi Shihab Nye has published over 20 books, including poetry, essays, picture books, novels and anthologies for younger readers. Her latest book of essays is I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay? Tales of Driving and Being Driven (2007). She has received many literary awards, and has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress). Her work has been presented on National Public Radio on A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac, and she has been featured on two of Bill Moyers’ PBS poetry specials on American television networks. She lives in Austin, Texas. Tender Spot: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) is her first UK publication.

Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English from University College, Cork in 2006. The winner of several of Ireland's poetry competitions in her early 20s (including the Seacat, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam), she has published three collections, all from Bloodaxe, Waiting for My Clothes (2004), Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009), winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010, and The Mining Road (2013). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies, including Selina Guinness's The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Billy Collins's Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France, India, China and America, amongst other locations.