Ardella Jones grew up fast in West London then read English at Bristol University. On graduating, she worked for Lambeth Council whilst moonlighting as reggae correspondent for the NME, winning the Catherine Pakenham Award for journalism. Ardella switched to writing fiction and scripts including the Radio 4 comedy panel game The Labour Exchange, starring Rory McGrath, and the cult 3D animation, Bunny Maloney. As part of double act, Ken & Ard, she won the New Names of 92 award at the Edinburgh Fringe, and, as a solo stand up, she toured the comedy circuit from Up the Creek to Jongleurs. Ardella taught creative writing in Adult Education; now she performs as a poet and is one of Southerly Communications writing team. Ardella’s star sign is Scorpio, her hobby is buying shoes and her favourite food is expensive. Ardella Jones, BA [Hons], DMS, PGCE is a member of the Institute for Learning and the National Association of Writers in Education. Jo Hepplewhite left the not-so-grim north – Harrogate – to study Drama and French at Bristol University. She pursued a career in television, as a producer and director, principally in the children’s sector. She became an expert in writing scripts for presenters such as Ant and Dec, Emma Freud and a couple of android glove puppets called Droib and Dreeb. She most recently worked on an animated film version of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince. She is now English for Academic Purposes Tutor at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent., while simultaneously studying for an MA in TESOL and Creative Writing at Westminster University. She has taught in HMP Belmarsh, on building sites and in care homes, and edited a collection of writing by domestic violence survivors, Stand in Love. Jo’s star sign is Sagittarius, her hobbies are removing superfluous apostrophes and deconstructing old movies. Her favourite food is – oops! forgot to cook! Jo Hepplewhite BA [Hons] is an associate of the Institute for Learning and a member of the National Association of Writers in Education.

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creative writing - short stories, novels, scripts, comedy, writing children's fiction plus 121 developmental tutorials by arrangement