Monica Ali
Nicola Barker
Rachel Cusk
Peter Ho Davies
Susan Elderkin
Philip Hensher
A. L. Kennedy
Hari Kunzru
Toby Litt
David Mitchell
Andrew O'Hagan
David Peace
Dan Rhodes
Ben Rice
Rachel Seiffert
Zadie Smith
Adam Thirlwell
Alan Warner
Sarah Waters
Robert McLiam Wilson

Alex Clark, critic (now deputy literary editor of the Observer)
Nicholas Clee, editor of the Bookseller (now a writer and critic)
Ian Jack, editor of Granta
Hilary Mantel, novelist
Robert McCrum, literary editor of the Observer