Anna Lewis
Anna Lewis was born in 1984. She studied Archaeology at the University of Manchester and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. In 2010 she won the Orange / Harper’s Bazaar short story competition, and was highly commended in the Commonwealth short story competition. She has won several awards for her poetry and is the recipient of a bursary from Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency, to work towards a first collection. Her poems have been published in British and Irish magazines including Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and The Shop, and she has read at the Oxford Literary Festival, the Cardiff BayLit Festival, the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea and at the Welsh Assembly. She lives in Cardiff.
Kallia Papadaki
Kallia Papadaki was born in the village of Didymoteicho in 1978. and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied economics in the United States at Bard College and Brandeis University. Her short story collection The Back-Lot Sound (Polis Publishers, 2009), attracted warm critical reviews and won the New Writers Award from the Greek literary journal Diabazo. Her short stories have been included in anthologies and her poems have been published in the Greek journal Nea Estia. She works as a professional screenwriter of feature-length films.
Bibliography:
“The Chance of the Road,” a short story in the anthology, The Stigma of our Age (Kastaniotis, 2010);
“Davelis, the Robber: 9 mm,” published in the anthology Greek Names (Kedros, 2010).
“6 Poems,” published in 2010 in the literary journal Nea Estia.
The Back-Lot Sound (Polis Publishers, 2009.
Paolo Piccirillo
Paolo Piccirillo was born in 1987 at Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the province of Caserta.
After secondary school he moved to Florence and later to Rome to study screenwriting.
He was picked for Rai TV’s specialization course for scriptwriters (“XIII corso di perfezionamento per sceneggiatori Script/Rai”). At the same time, his first novel “Zoo col semaforo” was published by Nutrimenti.
He is on the “Il sole 24 ore” list as one of Italy’s best writers under 40.
Susanne Heinrich
Susanne Heinrich was born in Leipzig in 1985. While still at school she founded her first band, did theatre work and took part in writing workshops. In 2004 she studied at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has received various awards for her literature and, among other things, took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann competition in 2005 and was awarded residencies at the Literarische Colloquium in Berlin (2008), Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2010) und Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano (2011). She has published numerous short stories in various anthologies and magazines (including Bella Triste, EDIT, VOLLTEXT). DuMont has published: “In den Farben der Nacht” (short stories, 2005); “Die Andere” (novel, 2007); “So, jetzt sind wir alle mal glücklich“ (novel, 2009) and “Amerikanische Gefühle“ (short stories, 2011). Susanne Heinrich lives and works in Berlin as a freelance writer and as a singer in the band “watching me fall”.
www.susanneheinrich.com
www.myspace.com/watchingmefallmusic