Judges

Dima Alzayat

Dima Alzayat was born in Damascus, Syria, and grew up in San Jose, California. Her short story collection, Alligator and Other Stories, was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her stories have appeared on BBC Radio 4 and in Esquire, The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Bristol Short Story Award Anthology, Bridport Prize Anthology, and Enizagam. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

Dima Alzayat

Kate Feld

Kate Feld writes short fiction, essays, poetry, and work that sits between forms. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies including Hotel, The Stinging Fly and The Letters Page. She is founding editor of creative nonfiction journal and reading series The Real Story, and has devised and run Arts Council-funded writing projects such as Rainy City Stories and The Blog North Awards. She has worked as a journalist for many years and is now a lecturer in Journalism at Salford University. She can be found at katefeld.com.

Kate Feld

Shane Kinghorn

Shane Kinghorn is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Contemporary Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has previously worked in London as a director and dramaturg. His teaching has focused on the practice and application of dramaturgy, examining the relationship between the ‘dramatic’ and contemporary performance trends. His performance work has shown in several international festival contexts and informs his specialist research area, documentary and verbatim theatre practice in the UK and Europe, the subject of recent and forthcoming publications.

Shane Kinghorn