OUR JUDGES
Julia Wheeler is a writer, journalist and interviewer who worked for the BBC for fifteen years including as the BBC’S Gulf Correspondent based in the UAE and covering the Arabian Peninsula, Julia wrote Telling Tales: An Oral History of Dubai: She chairs discussions at literature and science Festivals across the UK and internationally. Chair of judges for the 2024 Stanfords Travel Book of the Year, Julia is also a trustee of the Stratford Literary Festival. She read Economic and Social History at Swansea University, before postgraduate study in Broadcast Journalism at City, University of London.
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Jon Gower is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent who has over 40 books to his nome. These include The Story of Wales, which accompanied a landmark TV series, the travelogue An Iland Colled Seith and Y Storir which won the Woles Book of the Yoor. His latest book is The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea. Jon is currently writing a Welsh language historicol novel obout the polar explorer Edgor Evans, a collection of essays obout mountoins as well as a volume about the American footballer Raymond Chester, due out in 2024. He lives in Cardiff. [Photo Credit: Marian Delyth]
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OUR HOST
Alan Bilton is the author of three novels, The End of The Yellow House (Watermark 2020), The Known and Unknown Sea (Cillian, 2014), and The Sleepwalkers’ Ball (Alcemi, 2009), described by one critic as ‘Franz Kafka meets Mary Poppins’. He is also the author of a collection of surrealist short stories, Anywhere Out of the World (Cillian, 2016) as well as books on silent film comedy, contemporary fiction, and the 1920s. He was a Hay Festival Writer at Work in 2016 and 2017 and teaches creative writing, literature and film at Swansea University.
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