Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway is an internationally-acclaimed author of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction, collaborative works with sculptors, painters, musicians, typographers, photographers and videographers. She has won The American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award, Saltire Award, Creative Scotland Award and Scottish Book of the Year. She has been writer-in-residence to four Scottish prisons, Research Fellow to the British Library, resident at Jura Distillery, and was the first Fellow in Residence at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her radio work includes two series for BBC (Life as a Man and Imagined Lives) and programmes on music and musicians.
Juliet Pickering
Juliet Pickering joined the Blake Friedmann literary agency in 2013 and her authors have been shortlisted for Costa, Commonwealth and Guardian First Book Awards, won the Whitbread and Green Carnation Prizes and, in 2015, the prestigious French literary award, Prix Femina Etranger. Her interests range from literary, book club and well-written commercial fiction to crime and psychological suspense. She represents many non-fiction writers across the board, including memoir, pop culture, social history, feminist and political commentary, cookery and food writing, humour, and all sorts in-between. She was also a judge for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2016.
Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle has chaired the judging panel for the Manchester Fiction Prize since 2009. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met and the author of seven novels, including The Director’s Cut, Antwerp and First Novel. He has written more than 100 short stories, some of which feature in his collection Mortality. He has edited 20 anthologies, including six volumes of Best British Short Stories, and runs Nightjar Press, which publishes new stories in chapbook format. He lives in Manchester.