Joiners: Essays, Reviews & Interviews is the new book by UEA graduate Richard Skinner and has just been published by Vanguard Editions. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1996 and is the author of three novels published by Faber: The Red Dancer (2002), The Velvet Gentleman (2008) and The Mirror (2014). His poems have been shortlisted for the Charles Causley Competition, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, and have appeared in numerous journals. Invisible Sun, his most recent collection of poetry, was published by Smokestack Books last year. Richard is the Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy.