Contributors

Paul Watson is the youngest international football coach in the world. Before taking up coaching, he worked as a journalist for Football Italia. He lives in London.

Kaaron Warren is the author of the novels Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, Tide of Stone and The Grief Hole and the short story collections Through Splintered Walls, The Grinding House, and Dead Sea Fruit. Her short stories have won her a Shirley Jackson Award, as well as multiple Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards. She lives in Canberra, Australia.

Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed as 'schizophrenic' and lived the last twenty years of his life in hospital. His novels include Jakob von Gunten and The Assistant. Robert Walser died in 1956.

Joanna Walsh's work has appearedin Granta, Narrative, The Stinging Fly and Guernica, amongst others. Her first collection, Fractals, was published by 3:AM Press in 2013 and her non-fiction work Hotel was published internationally by Bloomsbury in 2015. This was followed by Grow a Pair and her most recent collection Vertigo, which was published by And Other Stories in the UK in 2016. Her digitally groundbreaking novella Seed was released in 2017 as well as her third collection of stories, Words from the World's End.

Philip Walling started out farming in Cumbria, then trained as a barrister and practised for twenty-five years, before turning to writing. From the law he brings learning and rigour, while his roots in the land give him a passion for and deep understanding of the landscape and people of rural England – a combination which lends a unique perspective to his work. He now lives in Northumberland.

Sandol Stoddard Warburg authored more than two
dozen books, including bestselling children's fiction and
non-fiction works for adults.

Dale Vince is the founder of Ecotricity. A former new age traveller, he invented the idea of 'green energy', built Britain's first electric car, set up the world's first national charging network, invented sky diamonds, and runs Forest Green Rovers, the world's first vegan football club. A tree-hugging plant-eater since he was a teenager, he's a campaigner, entrepreneur, bestselling author and advocate for Green Britain.

Stephen Vines has been writing about markets and business for more than two decades. He was the Deputy Business Editor of The Observer and has worked for The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and the New York-based Daily Deal. More recently he has combined writing with founding and running a number of companies and learning a lot more about how business really works. He is also an active stock market investor and has provided consultancy services to a number of listed companies. Now based in Hong Kong, he is the author of a study of the Asian financial crisis called The Years of Living Dangerously. Stephen Vines was the founding Chief Editor of Eastern Express, a ground breaking daily newspaper published in Hong Kong.

Katharina Volckmer is a writer and journalist based in London. She holds a DPhil in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Her first novel The Appointment was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. It has been translated into over 15 languages and has been adapted for the stage and radio in several countries. Her writing and journalism has appeared in LitHub, HEAT, Apartamento, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Astra Magazine and others. Her second novel Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes (a.k.a Wonderfuck) was published in 2025 and has been translated into several languages.

Dr Dorothy Wade is a consultant psychologist at the Royal Free London NHS Trust, specialising in working with critically ill patients and their families. She is also honorary associate professor at University College London, and co-chair of UK Psychologists in Intensive Care (PINC-UK).

Previously a journalist, including as Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine, her experience commissioning and writing about psychology, health, medicine and neuroscience led her to retrain as a psychologist. She has written numerous academic book chapters, journal articles and professional guidelines. An experienced public speaker and broadcaster, she lives in London.

Altered States of Mind is her first book and in 2024 was awarded the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction.