Contributors

Michael Blackburn is the man behind Harry. He's a freelance writer and editor in Lincoln. His poems, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. The most recent collection of his poems is The Prophecy of Christos (Jackson's Arm, 1992). He has worked as a Literature Development Officer, Festival Director - and computer programmer - and in 1995 was Writer-in-residence on the Internet at artiMEDIA in Batley. In 1995 he also received a Writer's Bursary from Eastern Arts for another Net project. The Poetry Society have recently commissioned him to write a poem for their Online Poetry Map. During 1996 he will be Writer-in-residence on the David Mach Train Sculpture in Darlington. Check out his website.

Alan McDonald is the founder of the island. He's best-known as a playwright and scriptwriter. He has written for television (including Brookside and EastEnders), the stage, and many plays for radio. Most recently he wrote two series of Unofficial Rosie for BBC Radio 4, based on the characters in his own novels Unofficial Rosie and Rosie among thorns. He also writes computer manuals and Help systems, and is now combining his computer and writing skills in work on the Internet, including a residency at artiMEDIA in Batley in 1995. He has taught and trained writers for many years at night-classes, day-schools, for many local authorities and the Arvon Foundation. Click here to view his goddesses in cyberspace.

Andy J Campbell, creator of the unHoly Tower, was born in Halifax England in 1975 and shares his day of birth with that of Shakespeare - although of course that is where the similarities come to an abrupt end. A computer programmer/graphic artist turned writer of the weird and fantastique, he has written over 150 short stories, a selection of which have been featured in a handful of glossy and small-press magazines - namely Implosion, Beneath the Surface, The New Science Fiction Times, Axiom, Auslander, The Outsider, Raw Nerve - and 'rather decent' cyberzines, such as Dreams and Dragons, CrossConnect, Stitch, Cluster and many others. He currently works evening shifts at a local newspaper firm, printing invoices, backing up files, and secretly hacking away away at mind-stretching new fiction.

Brian Larkman has created the look and feel of the island. He's a digital artist, writer and lecturer especially interested in the spirit of landscape. He has worked as a photographer and digital illustrator for various writers in the fields of mainstream and alternative archaeology. Currently he is researching lucid dreaming, shamanic trance and prehistoric rock art, and preparing work to exhibit during the Year of Photography and the Electronic Image in 1998. His illustrations, articles, reviews and tutorials appear regularly in computer and design publications. Most recently he has produced several series of graphics tutorials and reviews for Mac Format magazine. He teaches computer graphics at York College.

MARCUS TATE was born in 1957. After a foundation course at Loughborough he studied printing technology at Nottingham Trent University. In 1990 he completed a BA in photography at the London College of Printing. From 1992-3 he was the first Southern Arts Photography fellow at Bournemouth University. As a freelance photographer he has worked for the Royal Opera House, Routledge, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the London Sinfonietta and the London Transport Museum. In 1996 he had an exhibition in St Petersburg sponsored by Cable & Wireless.

SUE BUTLER's first pamphlet 'Learning to Improvise' was published by Rockingham Press. The second, 'The Mammoth's Knee' was a 1995 winner of the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition. In 1996 she won an Eric Gregory Award. As the recipient of a 1996 Yorkshire & Humberside New Awakenings Award she is continuing to write on the subject of Russia with special interest in St Petersburg, its history and its people. Together Marcus and Sue have created 'Map reading in St Petersburg'.

kayliss is not a young fish anymore, but not old either. Having swam in a rather interactive school, kayliss now enjoys employment in the very wet and saltly South Wales. By day, an electronic interface explorer, by night an amateur chef in a sushi bar. kayliss enjoys Blind Date and Star Trek, at the same time...and has an avid fear of large groups of wheelie bins who lurk on dark street corners on certain days of the week. kayliss has recently contributed to a book on coal mines, worked undercover as an exhibition assistant for a 'hands-on' science centre, and is looking forward to the prospect of hosting the worlds largest pancake-tossing event on the next Shrove Tuesday... contact kayliss by e-mail.

Probe is not a car, he is not a space ship either, and he's definitely not something that you poke the fire with. Picture him sitting in a room late at night, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, getting his fingers caught in a loom, trying to weave the One Thousand and One Nights into a persian carpet, amongst other things... Maybe these things are true, maybe they're not. Probe takes himself very seriously... <----Greek waiter for hire; does very nice things, yes? Or no...or maybe...

Nick Totten created the unTherapy Centre for unHoly Island. He is a pyschotherapist in private practice in Leeds, England; also a writer and poet. He administers Non Mainstream Psychotherapy and Counselling Resources on the Internet.


Char March, creator of unHoly Weather, grew up in Scotland, but has now made her home in Yorkshire, England. She is well-known as a performance poet and her work has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies in both Britain and the States. Grassroots Press (17a Bainbrigge Road, Leeds, LS6, England) has published four books of her poetry. She is also an award-winning playwright for radio and stage, as well as tutoring in creative writing, performance skills and reader development initiatives. These are the first www pages she's designed and she learnt everything she still doesn't know about the net from the infamous Alan McDonald.