Anastasia Parkes is an author with multiple creative personae. As Anastasia she has published a short story collection (Stabbing the Rain, 2013), and writes ‘human interest’ articles for The Times, The Daily Mail, The Lady, and The Tablet.

She has written two novels under the pseudonym Maria Lucas: Daddy’s Girl (2016), and Loved Ones (2017).

As Primula Bond she is the successful author of the erotic romance Unbreakable trilogy: The Silver Chain (2013), The Golden Locket (2013) and The Diamond Ring (2014), published by HarperCollins.

Anastasia has an MA in English Literature. She has worked as a Jericho Editor for over ten years and has delivered several workshops on general short story techniques.

Cecile is an experienced editor and proofreader who adores helping writers to make their words shine. Since 2015, Cecile has worked with authors across a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres.

Cecile has tertiary qualifications in Professional Editing and Proofreading, Secondary Education, English Literature and Journalism.

Since joining Jericho Writers, she has assisted more than 20 authors to progress their writing projects through agent submission pack assessments, manuscript assessments, developmental edits, copy edits, line edits, proofreading and post-editorial support.

Dexter Petley is an experienced editor, acclaimed literary novelist, memoirist and translator. As a long serving editor with Jericho Writers, (since 2005) many of Dexter’s clients have achieved considerable success in finding agents and publishers.

Dexter does not shy away from complex themes or influences. His expertise spans entire genres, from commercial book club to war fiction. He takes everything in his stride, turning his fastidious, but fair, eye to anything at hand – making you a better writer for it.

Em Norry is a fiction and non-fiction MG/YA author, with her books being published by Scholastic, Puffin, Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury, and Hodder Education. She writes as Em Norry and E. L. Norry.

Her books include Son of the Circus (2019, Scholastic), The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela (2020, Puffin), Amber Undercover (2021, OUP) and Fablehouse (2023, Bloomsbury).

She has had short stories published in the following collections: Home Again: Stories about Coming Home from War (2020, Scholastic), Happy Here (2021, Knights Of), The Place for Me: Stories from the Windrush (2021, Scholastic), A Very Merry Murder Club (2021, Farshore), The Super Sunny Murder Club (2024, Farshore).

Jon Curzon is a literary agent at Artellus Ltd., where he represents writers across fiction and non-fiction. Clients he has represented have been published in the UK, US, Germany, France, India, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Greece.

In addition to his agenting work, Jon has also worked as a freelance editor for literary consultancies and creative writing courses since 2015. His perspective as an agent allows him to precisely identify what’s working in your manuscript and what needs tweaking in order to take your work to the next level.

Louise Tondeur is a writer of fiction, poetry, plays, and non-fiction. Her published works include two novels, The Water’s Edge and The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls (Headline Review), a short story collection called Unusual Places (Cultured Llama, 2018), and non-fiction writing guides.

Louise has an MA in Creative Writing, a PhD, and has worked as a Drama teacher and Creative Writing lecturer. She has supported countless writers with both written and verbal feedback, and brings her knowledge of theatre and creative writing into conversations with emerging writers.

Dr Pauline Kiernan has been a literary consultant for 12 years and has taught Creative Writing on Oxford University’s Creative Writing Undergraduate and MA programmes.

She is the author of Screenwriting They Can’t Resist (2011) and is a theatre and film consultant. Her monographs, Shakespeare’s Theory of Drama (1996), and Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe (1999) were published to worldwide acclaim, and her best-selling Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Most Outrageous Sexual Puns (2006) was an Observer Book of the Year.

Mixing dark humour with scenarios both banal and fantastic, Richard Blandford has walked the line between the comic and the horrifying since 2004. He is the author of the Elvis impersonator novel Hound Dog (2007), the coming-of-age tale Flying Saucer Rock & Roll (2022), Whatever You Are Is Beautiful (2022) and My Life in Orbit (2024). He is also the author of the short story collections The Shuffle (2022) and Erotic Nightmares (2022).

His art survey London in the Company of Painters (2017) and was listed by Martin Gayford as one of the art books of the year in The Spectator, and a London book of the year in the Evening Standard.