Anna Chilvers is currently working on her PhD in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School, aided by Two Minutes Stories' co-host Helen Mort. She is the author of two novels published by Blue Moose books: Tainted Love and Falling Through Clouds.​Poet Mark Pajak's pamphlet Spitting Distance was a Laureate's Choice publication for the Poetry Business. He has been a House Poet at the Manchester Writing School, and won first prize for poetry in the 2016 Bridport Prize.