About core members

The following people initially dreamt up and created the wonderful community that is Subway. With the help of all community members, they also mould the organisation's operation, organising publications, events, the virtual community and website.

Annie Bumgarner - Subway publishers Annie despises gherkins. She likes foggy mornings very much, as well as accoustic guitars, marzipan, and the novels of Thomas Hardy, though not in that order. Born a Yank, (much against her Anglophiliac will) Annie plans to be Executive Editor of the New Yorker by the age of 30 and flit back and forth across the pond between a studio apartment in Manhattan and an ivy covered cottage in the Cotswolds. She is currently Assistant Editor of a prestigious and highly influential publication called Dentistry magazine, and lives in North London.

Jonathan Hassell - Website, smartgroups, compere By day, an editor at the BBC. By night, an actor/singer/frustrated comedian. In dreams, an infamous, yet unaffected, novelist. In reality, writing that first novel to shake-up the dreams and see what's real. Inspired by Coupland, Amis, tube-delays… Jonathan hopes to accompany you on holidays or other occasions you pick up a book.

Katherine Hodson - Subway publishers My name is Katherine Hodson and first and foremost I am a person, a unique, inspired, honest, passionate, random person but still a person. When I'm not working at Macmillan Publishing I am talking to people, and occassionally listening (!), reading, curled up on my bed, or sardined on the tube. I spend lots of time with other Christians, having fun and praying noisily, and occasionally I get inspired to do crazy things like trekking across deserts for 5 days and shaving my head for charity. Oh, and I'm hoping to ditch the day-job one day and be a full-time Subway publisher extraordinaire (watch this space). In the meantime I'll be getting immersed in the fun but momentous task of putting together a Christian literary magazine. Pray for me - I'll need it!

Liz Evershed - Events (Subway North) Hi, my name's Liz, and I'm currently a PhD student at Durham. Like many Subwayers I've been writing stories and poems and things ever since I received the gift of literacy (Core 4 v 1?) and before that as well probably, if you count several very squiggly masterpieces that have, sadly, not survived to posterity. I think I would be a writer anyway, even without the hope of making it to publication. Literary heroes include: Tolkien, Lewis, Browning, Wilde, Aldous Huxley, Penelope Fitzgerald, e.e.cummings and Dostoyevsky. It seems rather lame to add the 'man of the millenium' to this list, but I don't think he's ever been bettered for style.

Paul Burgin - Events (Subway London) Paul works in a coffee shop making mean mochas and lovely lattes, and recently worked as a volunteer Consituency Intern for a London Labour MP. His alter-ego is a budding novelist with a heavy and active interest in politics. A founding member of Subway, Paul passionately believes that Christianity and quality literature do co-exist - take Tolkien or Lewis, for instance. So if you want someone to refresh you physically while giving you wardrobe advice, Paul's your man. P.S. He also says the photo does not do him justice. But then he is rather vain.

Tim Summers - Events (Subway West) & ACG Liaison I am a books-and-music addict, and would-be poet (and by day a solicitor), living in Bristol. I share a former maltinghouse - the technical term for a Guinness distillery, I am told - with some of my heroes: John Burnside, Mark Doty, Allison Funk, Elizabeth Bishop, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Don Van Vliet, The Strokes, Patti Smith, John Lennon, S.T. Coleridge, Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevksy. Subway is the church where I feel most at home.