S.C.Cullen is a writer based in the north of England. After teaching the history, theory and design of architecture, and publishing work exploring the human experience of architecture and space, she moved away from academia due to ill health in 2004. She has since returned to the creative writing that she enjoyed as a child.

For many years she has written with the London Writer’s Salon - the free international gathering of writer’s that takes place four times a day in four times zones - and has been published in their yearly Anthology since 2021. She writes with Carte Blanche in Newcastle, and has been published in their anthology. She also participated in the writing project organised by National Trust and New Writing North based at Seaton Delaval in 2001 where she met Sarah Benjamin and Jean Laurie, with who she has contained to collaborate. Their writings on Seaton Delaval was published in Inaudible as Dreams, edited by Sarah Benjamin. She has recently created the Burr Press - a home for creative projects (drawing and writing) and the offering of time and space for slowing down and retreating from the busy world for a re-creative and restorative spell.

Sarah Benjamin is a writer based from the North East whose poetry and short fiction are inspired by the rich history of the region. Her work has gained recognition in Jesmond Library and Crossing the Tees competitions and is published by Newcastle-based Inkylab. Together with other local writers, she created “Inaudible as Dreams”, an anthology of writing inspired by Seaton Delaval Hall. She is currently engaged in a collaborative project inspired by the history of Wallington Hall.

Jean Laurie was born in Jarrow. She worked as a librarian, then as a cultural development officer. She contributed to social and economic regeneration projects, including commissioning artworks for the seafronts in Morecambe and Fleetwood. She has commissioned poem paths, children’s books and short stories for adults as part of this work. She has written and performed poetry and short stories for many anthologies, including Thrills n’ Chills and Wish You Were Here (both Elementary Writers). She contributed to Inaudible As Dreams, a compilation of writing during John Challis’s writing residency at Delaval Hall. As a member of InHouse Writers she helped establish their poetry imprint. They have written and published a trilogy of poetry books, Coble Coast, Castle Coast and Carbon Coast, which reflect the heritage of Northumberland. Jean has led writing workshops linked to historic buildings and events, most recently for Northumberland Libraries’ public artworks commissioned to complement the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition in the Laing Art Gallery. Jean has two children and four grandchildren, living both sides of the current Scottish border.