Lucy Waverley is studying for a PhD in art history at Edinburgh College of Art and has degrees in history, historical research, and literature from the University of Oxford. She writes historical fiction to explore the people, places, and feelings academic history can’t reach.

Rue Baldry is the author of Dwell, the story of two traumatised young men of different classes falling in love with one another in 1919, published by Northodox Press in June 2026. Dwell won the 2024 First Novel Prize. Other work of hers has won the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Europe region), come second in the Yeovil Prize, and placed in other competitions. She has a BA in English Literature from York University and an MA in Literature with Creative Writing from Leeds University, was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee, a The Bridge Awards/ Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer, and a Women’s Prize Discoveries longlistee. Thirty-one of her short stories have been published in journals such as Granta, Ambit and The Honest Ulsterman. Her debut short story collection, Nice Things, is forthcoming from Fly On The Wall Press in December 2026.

Award winning author Sophie Perinot has enjoyed a decade-long career writing historical fiction. She’s authored solo novels centered on strong, royal women, (The Sister Queens and Médicis Daughter) as well as working with fellow historical novelists like Kate Quinn, Ben Kane, Heather Webb and Eliza Knight to craft collaborative novels about the French Revolution (Ribbons of Scarlet) and the destruction of Pompeii (A Day of Fire). Recently Sophie began writing crime as Evie Hawtrey. Even her mystery (And by Fire) has history in it, featuring the 1666 Great Fire alongside a modern, London-set, storyline. Sophie may be American by birth, but she currently resides in York, UK (as a recipient of the UK Talent Visa in Literature).

J.C. Corry’s first childhood memory was peering through rose-tinted stained glass in a Battersea church in London, England, colouring a passion for historical fiction emboldened by his father’s hole-ridden Normandy helmet that sits above his writing desk. An army brat, he lived in ten homes by the age of ten in Canada, England and Australia, studied literature (where his love for Chaucer began) and film, shot and produced television documentaries about artists including Jack Shadbolt and Nicholas Mosley, and lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

He is a member of the Historical Writers’ Association, Historical Novel Society, Writer’s Union of Canada and the Federation of BC Writers, and his novel The Storyteller’s War: Geoffrey Chaucer Reluctant Spy is published by Black Rose Writing. Book two in the series, The Storyteller’s Reputation: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy, is set for a 2026 release.

Rachel Canwell is an author who, having grown up in the Fens, has lived and worked in Cumbria for over twenty years. ​ Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Her collection of flash fiction Oh I Do Like to Be was published in 2022 and her novella-in-flash Magpie Moon in 2023. ​ Paper Sisters is her first nove

Anthony Sanders is a lawyer and legal scholar. A dual U.S.-U.K citizen, today he resides in Minnesota in the United States. There, he serves as the Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice. In that role he educates the public about the proper role of judges in enforcing constitutional limits on the size and scope of government through various means, including live events, books, articles, and podcasts. One area of Anthony’s expertise is on the history of state constitutions and using them to protect individual rights. He is the author of Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters (University of Michigan Press 2023). The book surveys the adoption and interpretation of the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution and “Baby Ninths” in state constitutions, from the early days of the American republic through today.

Anthony is also the author of numerous scholarly articles on state constitutional law, legal history, unenumerated rights, judicial review, economic liberty, property rights, international law, and other subjects. His work has appeared in publications such as the Iowa Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, American University Law Review, Judicature, and Rutgers Law Review. He has published opinion pieces in leading newspapers across the United States and has been a contributor to various journals including The Unpopulist, The Bulwark, Discourse Magazine, and Arc Digital. Further, he frequently speaks to various audiences on the above matters and others, including judicial engagement, free speech, civil forfeiture, and the continuing importance of Magna Carta. Additionally, he hosts the weekly Short Circuit podcast which often records live in front of law student audiences. Anthony has litigated several cases concerning state constitutional protections in various state courts, as well as in federal courts on matters such as economic liberty, free speech, administrative law, and fines and fees abuse.

In addition to his work on American constitutionalism and constitutional history, Anthony is preparing a book on English legal history that investigates an intersection of estate law and social networks in the legal industry in Victorian London. Among other sources, the book draws upon Court of Chancery archives and correspondence between lawyers working in the late Victorian period. He is currently readying the book for publication.

Anthony served as a law clerk to Justice W. William Leaphart on the Montana Supreme Court and worked for several years in private practice in Chicago where he was an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and chaired its Civil Rights Committee. Anthony received his law degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, where he served as an articles submission editor for the Minnesota Law Review. He now serves as an Adjunct Professor (2025-26) at the law school where he teaches a seminar on economic liberties. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to the HWA, he is a member of the Federalist Society, the Selden Society, the American Society for Legal History, and the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society. Anthony grew up on the islands of Vashon in Washington State and Alderney in the British Channel Islands.