Liberty Tales

Katy Darby co-runs Liars’ League (www.liarsleague.com) and teaches Short Story Writing and Novel Writing at City University, London. Her first novel, The Whores’ Asylum, was published by Penguin in February 2012. Her personal website is www.katydarby.com. Katy is the co-editor of our Liars' League anthologies, London Lies, Lovers’ Lies, (award winning) Weird Lies and We/She



Kate Foley is a widely published, prize-winning poet and former president of Suffolk Poetry Society. She has read in many UK and European locations. Her first collection, Soft Engineering was short listed for best first collection at Aldeburgh.

Her working life has ranged from delivering babies to conserving delicate archaeological material. She became Head of English Heritage’s scientific and technical research laboratories. Although she has always written poetry it wasn’t until she gave up the day job that she began to publish more widely.

She now lives with her wife, between Amsterdam and Suffolk, where she performs, writes, edits, leads workshops and whenever possible works with artists in other disciplines.



Liam Hogan was abandoned in a library at the tender age of 3, only to emerge blinking into the sunlight many years later, with a head full of words and an aversion to loud noises.

He’s a Liar and co-host of the award winning monthly literary event, Liars’ League, and winner of Quantum Shorts 2015 and Sci-Fest LA’s Roswell Award 2016. His steampunk stories appear in Leap Books ‘Beware the Little White Rabbit’ #Alice150 anthology, in Flame Tree Publishing’s ‘Swords&Steam’, and in Steampunk Trails II. Science fiction stories appear in DailyScienceFiction, in Sci-Phi Journal, and in Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.

He lives in London, tweets at @LiamJHogan and dreams in Dewey Decimals.

We published Liam’s first collection of short stories, Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed in April 2017



Helen Morris was one of five winners of the Solstice Shorts competition 2015. She lives and works in Essex. She tries to fit in writing stories between doing the washing for three sons, swimming too much, eating delicious food and drinking good beer.



Helen has stories in Arachne anthologies Solstice Shorts Sixteen Stories about Time, No SPider Harmed in the Making of This Book, and Liberty Tales



Helen is one of five authors of Five by Five



David Mathews is one of the winners of the Solstice Shorts Festival Short Story Competition. His story in Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories about Time is Wednesday Afternoon.



For 35 years David was a work psychologist. That gave him a license to mind other people’s business. He comes from Wales and lives in Bath and SW France. Recently his collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Impress Prize, Brittle Star magazine published his story ‘Florence, who made mustard’, and Audio Arcadia are currently recording ‘Removed’ about a man who looks for stones.



Jeremy Dixon was born in Essex and spent 45 year in rural South Wales making Artist’s Books that combine poetry and photography. He now lives on the Wirral. His poems have appeared both online and in print in Roundyhouse Magazine, Riptide Journal, Lighthouse Journal, Durable Goods, and Really System, among others. Arachne Press published his first poetry pamphlet, In Retail, and his first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then, which won the Wales Book of the Year 2022 Englsih Language Poetry Category



Anna Fodorova was born in Prague, and was stranded in England by the Russian invasion in the 60s. She has made TV animation films, written TV film scripts, worked as lecturer in art colleges, and is now in private practice as a psychotherapist.

Her children’s book: 'Carlo the Crocodile', was published by A.C.Black, and her novel 'The Training Patient', and a story included in 'Tales of Psychotherapy', were published by Karnac.

With Arachne Press, Anna has stories in 'Stations' and in 'Liberty Tales' before her second novel 'In The Blood'



Nick Rawlinson is an actor and writer based in Bristol.



A vagrant at heart, Cassandra has spent much time wandering, from Guatemala to Burma, between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. She’s published a couple of dozen stories and been short-listed for literary prizes, most recently the Beverley Prize. She lives in East Devon with her daughter.