Ciaran Carson is Literature and Traditional Arts Officer with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. His books include two collections from Bloodaxe, The Irish for No and Belfast Confetti.

Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Maureen Carter has worked both in print and broadcast journalism, newspapers and commercial radio. She has co-presented BBC's Newsnight programme and edited Midlands Today. She is a freelance writer and narrator, and her work has been short-listed in the Crime Writers' Association's New Writing Competition.

Working Girls is a crime novel published in 2001.

Martin Carter’s poetry was first published in Britain in 1954 by the leftwing publishing house Lawrence & Wishart when publication in colonial British Guiana wasn’t possible, and later by New Beacon Books. He appeared in E.A. Markham’s seminal anthology Hinterland (Bloodaxe, 1989) as one of the father figures of modern Caribbean poetry. Two editions of Selected Poems by Martin Carter have been published, one in Guyana in 1997 and another in Britain by Peepal Tree in 1999. Stewart Brown’s critical anthology All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter also appeared from Peepal Tree in 1999.