Professor Donald Macleod is Principal of the Free Church College in Edinburgh and one of Scotland's most challenging thinkers and writers, not only on theological matters, but also on a wide range of social and political issues. He is a native of Ness in Lewis.

Angus Peter Campbell was writer in residence at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic college in Skye. A native of South Uist, he is a widely-published poet and author as well as an award-winning journalist. He writes a weekly Gaelic column for the Free Press.

Brian Wilson was founding editor of the West Highland Free Press and spent 18 years as a Labour MP at Westminster, eight of them as a Government Minister. Since his retirement from politics he has remained active in many influential fields, especialy within the renewables industry. He is an award-winning journalist and now writes a weekly column for the paper.

Roger Hutchinson was a prominent participant in the London-based alternative press of the 1960s who moved to Skye in the mid-1970s and has been writing for the Free Press ever since. He is also the author of more than a dozen books, the most notable of which, "Calum's Road", was short-listed for the 2007 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. He lives on Raasay.

Chris Mitchell is a Zoology and Psychology graduate of the University of Hull. He lives in Waterstein in Skye and had led field-study groups on the island for over 26 years. He writes a fortnightly "Nature Notes" column for the Free Press.

Mary Beith has worked as a journalist in Scotland and England and is the author of "The Healing Thread", a study of the traditional medicines of the Highlands. She lives in Melness in Sutherland and writes a fortnightly Free Press column on the Gaelic medical tradition.