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!
Gary Couzens
Gary Couzens has published over thirty pieces of short fiction in F&SF, Interzone, The Third Alternative, Crimewave, Midnight Street, Roadworks, Peeping Tom, 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.
Sarah Ellender
Sarah Ellender has published short stories in various arenas including Zest and New Art from North Kent. She is currently working on her second novel. Sarah is a founder member of The T Party, is one of its most experienced critiquers and runs a series of writing workshops; 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. She is also a glassmaker, photographer, textile artist, jeweller, potter, and occasional swordswoman.
Dave Gullen
Self-assembling himself using only DNA donated by his parents, Dave Gullen is a fantasist with short stories and novellas published in several magazines and anthologies of science fiction, fantasy and erotica, including Albedo 1, Midnight Street, Legends, and Roadworks. His current project, a contemporary fantasy detective novel of mermaids, white flowers, missing cats and saving the world, is in final draft. He also designs and makes leather costume and armour (www.tinb.co.uk), and tries not to let the day job get in the way of real life, growing tree ferns, opening bottles with fellow writers and simply enjoying being here. Dave's website is at davegullen.weebly.com.
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 (story to appear in a forthcoming issue), 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.
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.
Bruce Holland Rogers
Bruce Holland Rogers is an American writer living temporarily in London. 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.
Rosanne Rabinowitz
Rosanne’s published fiction includes stories in The Third Alternative, Roadworks and The New Review at www.laurahird.com. She was a showcased writer in Midnight Street 4 and will appear in Postscripts this autumn. She has contributed to anthologies Extended Play: the Elastic Book of Music, The Slow Mirror: New Fiction by Jewish Writers, Deep Ten and Café Ole: Too Hot to Handle; her non-fiction includes reviews and articles for The Third Alternative, Interzone, Paradox and The New Review. She lives in South London and sometimes earns a crust as a freelance sub-editor. Other forms of toil have included stints as a life model, oral history researcher, part-time mental health worker and full-time dole claimer. She is a graduate of the Sheffield Hallam University MA in Writing.
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 and City Slab. 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 the rewrite of her third and the first draft of her fourth. She has a regular monthly column at writers' site Absolute Write. 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.
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.
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.