Founder Mabel Ferrett, who died in 2011, lived in Heckmondwike. Her son John still acts as Consultant. Pauline Kirk who is now sole Editor lives near York.

Pauline is a published poet and novelist and has edited journals and community publications as well as major anthologies of poetry. As a performance poet she has appeared at venues and festivals throughout the north, broadcast on local radio, and facilitated creative writing groups in a wide range of locations, from libraries and colleges to Social Services Day Centres and community halls. A Collection of fifty of her poems has recently been translated into Romanian, and published on-line in Translation Café number 239, August 2024.

With her daughter, Jo Summers, Pauline also writes the D.I. Ambrose series of novels under the pen name PJ Quinn (Foul Play, Poison Pen, Close Disharmony, Poetic Justice and Skull Days). These are published by Stairwell Books. See www.stairwellbooks.co.uk or www.pjquinn.co.uk or the Crime Writers Association for further details

Pauline has had three novels published under her own name: Waters of Time (Century Hitchinson, Ulverscroft), The Keepers (Virago, Little Brown, reissued as an e-book by Stairwell Books) and Border 7 (Stairwell Books). She recorded Border 7 as an audio book which is available on Amazon Audible (search for Pauline Kirk). New editions of Waters of Time and The Keepers were published by Stairwell Books in 2021.