Previous ‘guest editors’ include:
- Margaret Drabble and Jon Stallworthy (1992)
- Michael Dibdin and Seamus Heaney (1993)
- Stephen Fry (1994)
- Ted Hughes (1995)
- Penelope Fitzgerald (1996)
- Christopher Reid and Jill Paton Walsh (1997)
- Sebastian Faulks and J.H. Prynne (1998)
- Penelope Lively and John Kinsella (1999)
- Paul Muldoon and Lawrence Norfolk (2000)
- Zadie Smith and Michael Donaghy (2001)
- Andrew Motion and Nick Cave (2002)
- Ali Smith (2003)
- Philip Pullman (2004)
- Robert Macfarlane (2005)
- Don Paterson and Jeanette Winterson (2006)
- Colm Toibin (2007)
- Ian Patterson (2008)
- Patti Smith (2009)
- Amit Chaudhuri, Tom Raworth (2010)
- Jarvis Cocker (2011)
- John Darnielle, Tao Lin, Toby Litt (2012)
- Michael Frayn, David Harsent, Tom Phillips (2013)
- John Fuller, Paul Farley, Ben Okri, Prajwal Parajuly, Emma Chichester Clark and Alexander Gilkes (2014)
- Alison Turnbull and Sir Quentin Blake (2015)
- Rupi Kaur and Roger Mcgough (2016)
- Kate Bush (2017)
- Alexandra Shulman (2018)
- Louis de Bernieres and Mary Jean Chan (2019)
- Oscar Murillo and Philippe Sands (2020)
- Arlo Parks and Clover Stroud (2021)
- Olivia Laing and Kofi Stone (2022)
- Lotte Jeffs and Jordan Stephens (2023)
- Lemn Sissay and Denise Riley (2024)
Previous student Editors and selected Deputy/Associate Editors include:
- Adrian Woolfson and Ian Critchley (1992)
- Rebecca James (1993)
- Dorothea Gartland and Jason Thompson (1994)
- Ruth Scurr and Chris Taylor (1995)
- Nick Laird (1996)
- Martha Kelly (1997)
- Adam Whitefield, Aleksander Keenan, Turin Munthe and Jonty Claypole (1998)
- Benjamin Yeoh, Sophie Craig, Matt Edwards and Chris Tryhorn (1999)
- Sophy Levy, Tom Rob Smith, Catherine Shoard, and Peter Robons (2000)
- Tom Hill and Benjamin Hewitt (2001)
- Tom Hill, Benjamin Hewitt, Rachel Aspden and Tim Martin (2002)
- Jodie Greenwood and Rachael Marsh (2003)
- Mark Richards and James Purdon (2004)
- Jonathan Beckman and Arthur House (2005)
- Torsten Henricson-Bell, Juliet Lapidos, Imogen Walford (2006)
- Catherine Duric, Iain Mobbs and Ryan Roark (2007)
- Erica Mena and Deborah Smith (2008)
- Peter Morelli and Decca Muldowney (2009)
- Lizzie Alice Robinson and Elliot Ross (2010)
- Catriona Gray and Philip Maughan (2011)
- Andrew Griffin, Katherine Powlesland, and Jessica Ballance (2012)
- Chloe Stopa-Hunt and Hugo Havranek (2013)
- Camille Ralphs and Andrew Wynn Owen (2014)
- Tom Cook, Lucy Diver and Emily Fitzell (2015)
- Jonathan Crossley, Beatrice Liese and Rebekah-Miron Clayton (2016)
- Sabhbh Curran, Abigail Scruby and Grace Linden (2017)
- Elizabeth Howcroft, Eimear Ni Chathail, Katie Dent, Victoria Gawlik and Daniel Haynes (2018)
- Eimear Ni Chathail, Elizabeth Huang and Leah Wild (2019)
- Zoe Matt-Williams (2020)
- Ceci Browning (2021)
- Nick Bartlett and Isabel Sebode (2022)
- Lotte Brundle and Ellie Austin (2023)
- Leo Kang & Famke Veenstra-Ashmore (2024)
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