Robert Edgar is Associate Professor in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities, Religion and Philosophy at York St John University, UK. His teaching specialisms include scriptwriting, memoir and genre fiction. He has published on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Film Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019). Ongoing research and creative projects include writing sound, writing the eerie and indie music memoirs.

John Marland is Senior Lecturer in Film and Literature at York St John University where he has both taught and developed undergraduate courses in Scriptwriting.