{"id":137,"date":"2018-08-24T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2022-01-30T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:12:31","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/about-us\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSSF Festival Team is made up of individuals with a passion for the written word with a variety of backgrounds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Fiona Gell<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 Festival Director<\/li>\n<li>Anna Chilvers\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Academy Facilitator<\/li>\n<li>SJ Bradley <span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u2013 Editor, Northern Short Story Festival Academy Anthology<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Molly Magrath &#8211; Digital Content Creator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fiona Gell<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-139\" title=\"Photo of Fiona Gell\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Fiona-Gell.jpg?resize=175%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fiona Gell\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Fiona-Gell.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Fiona-Gell.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><strong>Fiona<\/strong> is a founder member and Director of the Leeds Big Bookend and Northern Short Story Festival. She has put on hundreds of\u00a0 literary events in Leeds over the last 10 years. She is a founder member of Leeds Lit Fest which won Best Literary Festival at the Saboteur Awards 2020. She works as the Marketing and Communications Officer at The Leeds Library.<\/p>\n<h2>Anna Chilvers<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-138\" title=\"Photo of Anna Chilvers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Anna-Chilvers.jpg?resize=175%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Anna Chilvers\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Anna-Chilvers.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-Anna-Chilvers.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><strong>Anna<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, a runner, a long-distance walker, a mother, a teacher and a reader.She is the Academy Facilitator\u00a0of\u00a0the Northern Short Story Festival. Her most recent novel, <em>Tainted Love<\/em>, was published in 2016, and her first, <em>Falling Through Clouds<\/em>, in 2010 (both Bluemoose Books). She has also published a collection of short stories, <em>Legging It<\/em> (Pennine Prospects, 2012) and her play, <em>The Room<\/em> was performed at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival 2013. Anna is particularly interested in the links between writing, walking and the landscape. She is currently working on her next novel, <em>East Coast Road<\/em>, as well as a PhD on writing and walking in woodland.<\/p>\n<h2>SJ Bradley<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-140 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Photo of author SJ Bradley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-SJ-Bradley.jpg?resize=175%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SJ Bradley\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-SJ-Bradley.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Team-SJ-Bradley.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><strong>SJ<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, editor, and organiser from Leeds, UK. She is a K Blundell Trust Award winner, a Saboteur Award winner (<em>Remembering Oluwale<\/em>, Valley Press: Best Anthology, 2017), and past Director of the Northern Short Story Festival. Her short fiction has appeared in <em>Litro<\/em>, <em>Disclaimer<\/em>, <em>Queen Mobs<\/em>, and <em>Conradology<\/em> (Comma Press). In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Willesden Herald Short Story Prize. Her second novel, <em>Guest<\/em>, is out now from Dead Ink Books.<\/p>\n<h2>Molly Magrath<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1375 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigbookend.co.uk\/nssf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0195-1.png?resize=175%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly <\/strong>is a freelance digital content creator for the Northern Short Story Festival and Leeds Big Bookend as well as a Library Projects Assistant. Originally from Cambridgeshire, she now\u00a0\u00a0lives in Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSSF Festival Team is made up of individuals with a passion for the written word with a variety of backgrounds. 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