Spike Contributors

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:: Robin Askew is a journalist based in Bristol

:: Adam Baron is a crime novelist

:: Thierry Brunet

:: Budge Burgess edits www.omnigadrum.com — a radical series of adventures for writers, social workers, homeworkers, game players, and lovers of Scotland

:: Eugene Byrne is deputy editor of Venue magazine

:: Nathan Cain

:: Nick Clapson is spike’s resident art expert and Java guru. His own website is at clapson.co.uk

:: Dan Coxon is a freelance journalist and writer based in Edinburgh, and the author of the Wee Book Of Scotland. You can find him on MySpace

:: Dr Jerome Deg, hypermonkey, teaches English, likes electroclash, bill hicks and trainers, and is hairier than you’d expect.

:: Alice Duberry is a UK-based poet and crime fiction enthusiast - two genres which don’t often sit comfortably side-by-side…

:: Dan Epstein

:: John Edwards Gunn shows his photos on johnedwardsgunn.com and reviews books for bookmunch.com

:: Adrian Gargett PhD - research interests include philosophy, art, film, cyberculture, postfeminism and the darkside of digitalisation. Read more of his work at www.disinfo.com

:: Emma Garman is a New York-based writer. Her website is at emmagarman.com

:: Pedro Blas Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Barry University, Florida.

:: Ben Granger is a long time contributor to SpikeMagazine.com

:: Katrina Gulliver is a writer, artist and film-maker. Her website is katrinagullliver.com

:: Edmund Hardy was born in Tokyo, grew up in Essex and has just completed a degree in anthropology

:: Chris Hall is a journalist and sub-editor based in London

:: Stephen Harper

:: Sea’n Harnett is a freelance instructional writer. He lives with his partner in an old cottage just outside Galway, Ireland. They call it their "hobbit hole." If you ever saw it you’d understand

:: Ian Hocking is a writer living in York. His latest novel, De’ja` Vu, will be published in the Autumn of 2004 by UKAPress

:: OJ Irish

:: Antony Johnson is a comics book writer. His website is mostlyblack.com

:: Craig Johnson is spike’s South Manchester correspondent

:: Dorothy Johnson is a writer living in the West End of Glasgow

:: Jonathan Kiefer is a writer living thousands of miles from Spike headquarters, in northern California

:: Simon Kirrane

:: David B. Livingstone

:: Thomas Handy Loon

:: James McConalogue is an editor and writer living in Oxford.

:: Elizabeth McCullough

:: Andrew McCutchen

:: Patrick McGuigan

:: Jayne Margetts is a journalist based in Melbourne, Australia

:: Gary Marshall is a journalist and part time rock god. You can check his journalistic credentials at garymarshall.co.uk and his burgeoning band behemoth at kasino.co.uk

:: Darren J. N. Middleton is Associate Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University

:: Chris Mitchell is the editor, publisher and benevolent dictator of spikemagazine.com. His personal site is at chrismitchell.org. Chris also writes the travel blogs divehappy.com (scuba diving in South East Asia) and travelhappy.info (Thailand backpacking)

:: Nick Mitchell is based in Edinburgh

:: Stephen Mitchelmore is a long standing spike writer and regular contributor to the spike weblog splinters. Steve also has his own website The Gaping Void and weblog This Space

:: Michael Morrissey

:: Chas Newkey-Burden is a freelance journalist and author of the Pocket Essentials Guide To Nuclear Paranoia. His website is at newkey-burden.com

:: Mark Ostrowski

:: Lewis Owens

:: Tim Parks is a novelist. His website is timparks.com

:: Nancy Rawlinson

:: David Remy

:: Mark Richardson is an undergraduate in Philosophy at Dundee University. His short stories and articles have been published in a variety of places. Details can be found at markrichardson.info

:: Bethan Roberts

:: Peter Robertson divides his time between Madrid and Buenos Aires. He is a regular contributor to The Buenos Aires Herald.

:: After ten years in Italy, Chris Rose has decided that is is now preferable to spend his Sunday afternoons at home writing reviews and improbable short stories than going to watch his home team, Napoli, get beat again

:: Suhayl Saadi is an author and playwright. His website is at www.suhaylsaadi.com

:: Ismo Santala is a regular contributor to the spike weblog splinters. His personal website is at ismosantala.com

:: Reverend Osagyefo Sekou is a St Louis counselor, educator, author, and social activist

:: Jeffrey Sharlet

:: Harpreet Singh Soorae lives in Birmingham, England. A selection of his short stories will be included in an anthology of new writers to be published by Tindal Street Press in the autumn.

:: Qurat ul ain Siddiqui is a student and a freelance writer based in Karachi, Pakistan

:: Sally-Ann Spencer works in books publishing and translates from the German

:: Kenn Taylor is a freelance journo based in Liverpool

:: Mark Valentine

:: Kevin Walsh is a freelance writer based in Carcassonne, in the South of France

:: Peter Wild is the co-founder of Bookmunch. He lives with his wife and daughter and works a dreary job to keep them in the squalor they’ve become accustomed to

:: Chris Wiegand

:: Bjo”rn Wiman

:: Brendan Wolfe is an editor and writer living in Iowa City, Iowa. His most recent adventure is a year teaching English in Daejeon, South Korea.

:: CJ Wood’s achievements include being told to fuck off by Spike Milligan and turning up pissed to the wrong hotel to interview Will Self, who was very cool about it. CJ’s motto is "it seemed like a good idea at the time."

Posted on March 5th, 2007.

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