The East Anglian Writers Committee

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Alison Pressley: Chair

A former book editor and publisher for companies such as Allison & Busby, Quartet, Reader's Digest, HarperCollins and Hachette, Alison has written four non-fiction books on popular social history including The Best of Times andChanging Times, now published in one volume as The 50s and 60s. She was also editor of the Australian magazine Good Reading until her return to England in 2009.

Charles Christian: Treasurer and Membership Secretary; Facebook manager

Charles Christian is a former practising barrister turned independent journalist and commentator. He was a Reuters correspondent and the 1994 winner of the UK National Newspapers Technology Journalist of the Year Award. He is the publisher of the industry newsletter Legal Technology Insider and of the poetry & prose webzine Ink Sweat & Tears.

Ann Thwaite

Born in London, Ann Thwaite spent the war years in New Zealand. For many years she wrote and reviewed children’s books, and has since writtenWaiting for the Party, a life of Frances Hodgson Burnett; Edmund Gosse (winner of the Duff Cooper Award, 1985); A. A. Milne (Whitbread Biography of the Year in 1990); and Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife. Her A.A. Milne biography was recently used as the basis for the film Goodbye Christopher Robin, and an edited version was published under the same name.

Amanda Hopkinson

Amanda Hopkinson has written about a dozen non-fiction works, mainly on popular culture in Latin America and photographic bios/monographs (Julia Margaret Cameron; Manuel Alvarez Bravo; Martin Chambi; Gerti Deutsch). She has also translated some two dozen novels/memoirs/poetry collections from the Spanish, Portuguese and French. From 2004-10 she was Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia and is now Visiting Professor at both Manchester University and City University, London. In 2003 she co-founded the Writers in Translation Committee for English PEN on which she remains a Board member.

Keiron Pim: Twitter manager

Keiron Pim is an author, journalist and editor who lives in Norwich with his wife and three daughters. His book Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll’ Underworld received widespread praise when it was published by Jonathan Cape in 2016. Before that he wrote The Bumper Book of Dinosaurs, a family guide to dinosaurs (Square Peg, 2013), and edited and introduced Into the Light: the Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich (East Publishing, 2013). He also offers a mentoring service for non-fiction authors courtesy of Writers' Centre Norwich. Previously Keiron worked for a decade as literary editor and feature writer at the Eastern Daily Press.
Photo credit: Keiron Tovell

Kate Campbell
Kate Campbell brieflly worked at the BBC and in various capacities as a teacher before becoming a University Lecturer in English, which led to interdisciplinary teaching with philosophers, historians and those in cultural studies as well as literature. Her research interests as an academic are nicely indicated in three book publications: two interdisclinary volumes, Critical Feminism, and Journalism, Literature and Modernity; and a study in the British Council series on Writers and their Work, Matthew Arnold.