Members - The T Party

The T Party has more than 30 full members, as well a number of associates and friends. We don't have a hard limit on the number of members, or any entry requirements except that would-be members must either have published fiction or be able to demonstrate their aptitude to write work of publishable quality. Some of our bolder members' biographies are given below.

Members in good standing pay a small annual fee towards administrative expenses and submit their own work and critique others'. All members are eligible to attend our monthly workshops, weekly writing evenings, speaker events, retreats and social trips. Full details of members' privileges and obligations can be found here.

If you're interested in joining, please contact us for details. We are always interested in meeting new people!

Helen Callaghan

Helen Callaghan writes speculative fiction inspired by her love of intelligent books and brainless movies. Her completed novel, Mephistophela, is set in a near-future London and inspired by elements of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. She is currently working on Sleepwalker, a time travel/alternate reality novel set in the North of England and Ancient Carthage. She lives in London with a rambunctious young hamster called Clarissa, a beloved car, some mutinous houseplants and too many books. Her personal webpage is here, and her erratically updated blog describing the writing of Mephistophela and Sleepwalker is here. Helen is represented by Judith Murray at Greene and Heaton.

Gary Couzens

Gary Couzens has published over thirty pieces of short fiction in F&SF, Interzone, The Third Alternative, Crimewave, Midnight Street, Black Static, Roadworks, Peeping Tom, Subterfuge, the anthologies The Alsiso Project and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases and elsewhere. In 2003 his collection Second Contact and Other Stories was published by Elastic Press, and in 2006 he edited Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music, which won the 2007 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. He is currently working on novels. He lives in Aldershot.

Sumit Dam

Sumit trained in astrophysics and was moments away from embarking on a career as a rocket scientist when he decided to become a writer instead. Since then, he has worked as a journalist and editor for some of the world's most prestigious publications and companies. Sumit most enjoys writing short stories -- whose subjects range from female emancipation to nihilistic horror -- but he might surprise everyone (not least himself) by producing a novel one day. During 2009, Sumit will be publishing a story a week over on his website, sumitsays.com.

Sarah Ellender

Sarah Ellender mostly writes science fiction and fantasy, although a year-long experiment with flash fiction has taken her down some unexpected paths. Her most recent sale is to Norilana’s “Warrior Wise Woman 2” anthology. She is a co-founder of PlotMedics, an innovative service that helps authors overcome their creative difficulties, along with fellow T Party veteran Gaie Sebold. Sarah is currently working on her second novel. Her plot-workings, writing angst (and exploits in crocheting, glasswork, random enthusiasms etc.) are documented on her website.

Melanie Garrett

Melanie Garrett has written feature dramas for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Afternoon Play, as well as for the CBC's Sunday Showcase. Her freelance writing has appeared in UK titles ranging from The Independent to What Digital. She was Writer in Residence at the University of Caen, and has had a film project in development with BBC Films and Scottish Screen. Melanie is represented by Meg Davis at MBA Literary Agents, and is currently working on a crime novel. Her website and blog can be found here.

K D Grace

K D Grace is passionate about nature, writing, and sex – not necessarily in that order. She entertains herself with Chinese martial arts, long, thought-provoking walks and extreme vegetable gardening. She has had erotica published in Cleis, Black Lace, Xcite Books and Ravenous Romance anthologies, as well as Scarlet Magazine. In addition to erotica, she also writes genre and mainstream fiction. Her blog is here.

David Gullen

David Gullen is a fantasist with several short stories and a novella published in magazines and anthologies of science fiction, fantasy and erotica, including Albedo 1, Midnight Street, Legends, Fishnet.mag, and Roadworks. His most recent sale is to PS Publishing's Catastrophia anthology and he was a finalist in the first quarter 2009 Writers of the Future competition. He is currently writing his second novel, an apocalyptic near future adventure of war, crime, and shopping, and is also working on a screenplay conversion of one of his stories as a short film for a small independent film maker.
David's website is at davegullen.weebly.com.

Caroline Hooton

Caroline Hooton became hooked on the Harry Potter books in 2001 and from there became drawn into the wider world of young adult fiction. She is an enthusiastic member of the British chapter of the Society of Children’s Writers & Illustrators and reviews young adult and childrens' novels for several on-line communities. She made her first short story sale to the e-zine Dred Tales in June 2008 and will complete an MA in Creative Writing (Novels) at City University in September 2009. She is currently finalising a young adult urban fantasy manuscript about shapeshifters living in London and in her spare time works as a projects lawer for a top 20 city law firm. Caroline is represented by Catherine Pellegrino at Rogers, Coleridge and White.

Jane Killick

Jane is probably best known for her series of Babylon 5 books, but she is also the author of The Making of Judge Dredd and many magazine articles. She is a former presenter on BBC Three Counties Radio, where can still sometimes be heard reading the news. Jane's website is www.janekillick.com.

Julia Knight

Julia Knight writes mostly fantasy with dollops of romance and the occasional magic turnip, though she isn't above writing a bit of smut - er, erotica - now and then. Her first book, Ilfayne's Bane, is available from Samhain Publishing as an ebook and will come out in print in November 2009. The sequel, Love Is My Sin, is due out in early 2010. Further information and some free short stories can be found at juliaknight.co.uk.

Will Mitchell

Will is an aerospace engineer and lives in West London. He writes Science Fiction and Horror, and his work has been accepted by The Book of Dark Wisdom and the Horrors Beyond anthology (both from Elder Signs Press), Midnight Street, and the Canadian magazine Neo-Opsis. His Horrors Beyond contribution received an honourable mention in the 2006 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He has a science fiction novel undergoing final draft, and has plans for a series of novels in various genres once it is complete. Will's website, including extracts and reviews, is at http://www.wmfiction.com.

Martin Owton

Martin Owton has been extensively published in UK small presses, appeared in Black Gate and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine and, in translation, in Nowa Fantastyka (Poland). He has received three honourable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror collections. He is currently seeking a publisher for his adventure fantasy novel and is represented by Ian Drury of Sheil Land Associates. His website is http://www.martinowton.com.

Rosanne Rabinowitz

Does Rosanne write literary or genre fiction, slipstream or social surrealism or just weird shit? Whatever you call it, there’s a helping out in Black Static 14 and more to come in NewCon Press’s Conflicts anthology. She has just completed Noise Leads Me, an anti-capitalist vampire novel set in Brixton. Her new book will be about a woman leader of the Adamites, the radical free-loving and sometimes unclothed faction of the Hussite revolution in 15th century Bohemia.

Her novella “In the Pines” from the award-winning Extended Play: the Elastic Book of Music garnered an honourable mention in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007. Other published work includes stories in The Slow Mirror: New Fiction by Jewish Writers, Postscripts and Midnight Street. Rosanne is a graduate of the Sheffield Hallam University MA in Writing and lives in South London.

Bruce Holland Rogers

Bruce Holland Rogers is an American writer. His stories have won two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and two World Fantasy Awards. Links to some of his stories can be found at www.shortshortshort.com. His personal web page is www.sff.net/people/bruce.

Denni Schnapp

Denni has received rejections from Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone and Strange Horizons, among others. That hasn't stopped her from trying. She is currently working on her first novel about giant trees, monkey people and aberrant AIs. Her personal website is at www.denni.co.uk.

Gaie Sebold

Gaie Sebold is an agented author whose short stories have appeared in a number of well-known genre magazines including Black Gate. Two of her stories have received honourable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. She has won several awards for poetry (her first collection, Urban Fox, is published by Tall Lighthouse). Her first novel was a horribly deformed creation of stunning awfulness and is chained up in the attic. Her second novel got her accepted by the John Jarrold Agency and she is working on her fourth. Gaie is a co-founder of PlotMedics, an innovative service that helps authors overcome their creative difficulties, along with fellow T Party veteran Sarah Ellender. You can find her website at http://gaiesebold.weebly.com/index.html.

Sara-Jayne Townsend

Sara-Jayne Townsend was born in Cheshire in 1969, but spent most of the 1980s living in Canada after her family emigrated there. She now lives in Surrey with two cats and her husband Chris. She co-founded the T Party Writers’ Group in South London in 1994, and remains Chair Person. Her short stories have been published in various places, including the T Party’s two anthologies, and KISSING THE SKY, the Jimi Hendrix-themed anthology published by Paycock press in the USA. She is currently working on a series of crime novels, calling upon her background in Canada for her amateur sleuth Shara Summers, who is a Canadian actress. Her horror novel, Suffer The Children, has recently been accepted by Lyrical Press.

Carole Tyrell

Carole Tyrrell was a founder member of the T Party and has recently returned after a break. So far she has been published in Enigmatic Tales, Supernatural Tales, Revelation, the anthology Brainbox 1, Smoke, and the T Party collection, Gravity’s Angels. When not writing she is also a keen photographer and can often be found in Victorian cemeteries, especially Nunhead in SE London. Currently she is working on a supernatural crime novel using the Magnificent 7 Victorian cemeteries as inspiration.