Tom Harris is a writer of Young Adult fiction whose tales of adventure and fantasy are always laced with a twist of humour, horror and suspense.

His first novel, a YA fairy tale, adventure-fantasy, The Amber Room is now available on Amazon Kindle and Smashwords eBook formats. This podcast features chapters 1 to 5 of the book. The follow-up to this will be entitled The Amber Antidote and be released in 2013.

His second book – 'Jackie Jones' – will be out before the end of 2012. Subscribe to the Portsmouth Writers Podcast as the first 2 chapters of Jackie Jones will feature at a later date.

Visit http://tomdharris.wordpress.com for more information.

Portsmouth born and bred, Joe McQuilken attended King Richard's School in Paulsgrove and Havant College, where alongside studying he helped to run fortnightly poetry classes. He is keen to use his position as Portsmouth's Young Poet Laureate to help spread the word of poetry. Joe has already performed at Camp Bestival in Dorset and the Wychwood Festival in Gloucestershire as well as at schools and other events around Portsmouth itself.

Sam Cox was born in Stratford, site of the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, and is the second Portsmouth Poet Laureate. A former deputy head at Charter Academy, Sam still teaches three days a week in Essex, spending the rest of her week back in Portsmouth. Mostly a performance poet, Sam considers her work as theatre pieces, often including percussion and other music in a performance.