Literature at Greenbelt 2008: Rising Sun
Alison Brumfitt
Alison Brumfitt is currently delivering environmentally friendly, fully digestible biodegradable, recyclable, perfectly portable performance...
Andrew Nugent
Former trial lawyer Andrew Nugent was called to the bar before he was called to the monastery and has travelled from being novice-master to...
Andrew Tate
When he's not watching re-runs of the West Wing, Dr. Andrew Tate lectures in English and American Literature at Lancaster University. His...
Anthony Wilson
Anthony Wilson was born in 1964. He has published three collections of poetry: How Far From Here Is Home? (Stride, 1996), Nowhere Better Than...
Chris Sunderland
Chris Sunderland has been, at various times, a research biochemist, working in an Oxford laboratory at the cutting edge of biotechnology and...
Cole Moreton
Cole Moreton is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times Magazine and the Mail on Sunday,...
Ed Newell
Ed Newell is Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral and Director of St Paul’s Institute. He experienced in experimental liturgy using the...
Garth Hewitt
Singer, songwriter and author Garth Hewitt is the Director of Amos Trust, the human rights organization which he founded in 1985. Writing and...
Gillian Allnutt
This is poetry at its best. Celebrated in The Guardian as "one of the finest and deepest of our living poets", Gillian Allnutt will be reading...
GP Taylor
If you’re an aspiring writer of fiction, G.P. Taylor’s return to Greenbelt is not to be missed. Funded by the sale of his beloved Harley Davidson,...
Helen Smith
Helen Smith is a novelist and playwright. She volunteers as a mentor and workshop leader with the Medical Foundation's Write to Life programme...
Jade Amoli-Jackson
I was born in Northern Uganda, and studied journalism at Makerere University, where I met my husband, the father of my three children. After...
John Haynes
A rare literary treat, poet John Haynes reads from his 2006 Costa Poetry Award (formerly the Whitbread) winning book, Letter to Patience, as...
John Taylor
Back by popular demand, John Taylor is a purveyor of original stories for all ages. With puppets and props and plenty to join in with, story...
Lizzie McHale
Lizzie McHale became a spoken word performer after being rescued from the abyss of abandonment by Amazonian warriors and retrained in the art...
Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday was born in Glasgow in 1964 and grew up in various parts of Scotland. He began writing poetry for children, and the title poem...
Martin Wroe
Martin Wroe makes a living as a writer, is a Trustee of Greenbelt and one of the main movers behind the Generous online community. As he is...
Matt Harvey
A regular voice on radio (you'll have heard him on Radio 4's Saturday Live, among others), Matt Harvey is one of the best-loved literary performers...
Michael Morpurgo
The former Children’s Laureate, multi-award-winning and, more importantly, loved-by-millions, makes his first appearance at Greenbelt in 2008....
Padraig O Tuama
Pádraig lives in Belfast where he works in chaplaincy with young people, as well as community work. He has worked with the Corrymeela Community...
Rachel Jones
Rachel Thackray Jones was for several years a freelance journalist, reviewing for the Independent and the Guardian, before writing her first...
Sarah Fordham
Sarah Fordham co-presented the widely praised Poetry Theatre genre with Sarah de Nordwall at the Poetry Society cafe. Since then Sarah has helped...
Simon Morden
Gateshead-based Dr Simon Morden trained as a planetary geologist, realised he was never going to get into space, and decided to write about...
Stephanie Ndoungo
I was born in June 1976 in Douala, Cameroon. After the sudden death of my dad, I had to stop my education and look for a job to help my mother...
Stewart Henderson
Stewart Henderson is a poet, songwriter and broadcaster. As a poet The Sunday Times described his children’s poetry as ‘essential reading’....
Suzanne Bray
Suzanne Bray is Professor of English Studies at Lille Catholic University in the north of France. She specialises in the areas of literature...
Suzanne Elvidge
After studying biochemistry and pharmacology, and realising that she would far rather write about it than actually do it, Suzanne Elvidge has...
Wilf Whitty
Wilf Whitty is a graphic designer for clients in the arts and the not for profit sector (including Greenbelt). He has been involved with Amos...