Writers

Frances Hardinge

Writes dark, bizarre, fantastical books for children and young adults

Niven Govinden

British novelist. Known as a "writer's writer"

Malika Booker

Poet, Playwright, Lecturer, Creative Writing tutor/ Mentor, Engaging reader, Charismatic

Sarah Perry

Novelist; academic (the Gothic, creative writing); critic (The Guardian, Financial Times); essays (BBC, Guardian, Slightly Foxed)

James Robertson

Scottish novelist, poet: intrigued by time, change, identity, locality, power

Amy Liptrot

Writer from a Scottish island. I'm all ears

Una

Not funny

Ned Beauman

Author of three novels, Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Courttia Newland

Out of the box, inner city, stylistically diverse, musically influenced 

Nick Harkaway

Novelist, European, wild-eyed black sky dreamer, husband, dad, oenophile, biathlon fan

Stephen Kelman

In the words of the underdog I find my voice

Jo Mazelis

Art school dropout, writer, photographer and lover of Welsh mountains

Helen Mort

Yorkshire-born, Derbyshire-bred poet, runner and amateur rock climber

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Neel Mukherjee

Novelist, curious, thinks about form more than he's given credit for

Liz Berry

Award-winning Midlands poet enchanted by voices, stories and dialect

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Sarah Howe

British-Chinese poet, academic and editor, born in Hong Kong

Benjamin Myers

Lone wolf of the north stalking the fictional hinterlands

Bernardine Evaristo

Afro-British adventurer who brings unique characters and stories to life

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Leontia Flynn

Writing poetry, sometimes writing about poetry, very occasionally just writing

Raymond Antrobus

Widely published poet & spoken word educator. Exploring deafness, identity & emotional literacy

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Alexandra Harris

Literary critic, cultural historian, lover of buildings, landscapes, seasons, stories

Alex Bellos

Mathematics. Puzzles. Brazil. Football. Pool, elliptically

David Szalay

London writer, European, also Canadian

Kit de Waal

I'm a writer, reader, giggler and baker of mixed heritage

Isabel Greenberg

Illustrator, writer, comics, graphic novels

Nadeem Aslam

Born in Pakistan, a novelist living in England

Kathleen Jamie

Scottish poet and non-fiction writer with interests in language, culture and nature

Christie Watson

Bookish, political, average dancer. Teach, write, drink too much coffee.

Paul McVeigh

Northern Irish writer of plays, comedy, short stories and novel

Ifor ap Glyn

National Poet of Wales, performer; with un-Londonlike interest in languages 

Laura Dockrill

baby. granny. annoying. optimistic. potato-eating. writing. drawing. talking. colourful.

Ros Barber

Emotionally lucid novelist of speculative pasts and futures

Jenni Fagan

Curious, dedicated, strange, brilliant, complicated, engaged, chatty, funny, loyal, true

Horatio Clare

Father, author, teacher, travel writer, university lecturer, walker, farmer 

Melissa Lee-Houghton

Fierce, Intelligent, Intense, Compassionate, Complex, Diligent, Expressive, Vibrant, Honest, Connected

Jenn Ashworth

Northern, working class writer curious about domestic, strange happenings in uncanny landscapes

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

Sophia Walker

Award-winning poet, playwright and teacher. UN and TEDx commissions

Carys Davies

Award-winning, widely anthologised short story writer, north-west England

Hannah Berry

Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker

Catherine O'Flynn

Novelist, former child detective, specialises in failed utopias, obsolete confectionery

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Poet, editor, critic, urban nature, collaboration and translation, diversity advocate

Stephen Collins

Cartoonist, born 1980. Permanently stuck down a creative rabbit hole

Gavin Francis

Writer and doctor exploring geographical, anatomical and cultural landscapes

Harry Josephine Giles

Multiplatform poet and performer, making strange, delightful and political interventions

Christopher Brookmyre

Permanently excited by the possibility of being wrong about everything

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Sandeep Parmar

Writer, Critic, interested in issues of migration, race, avant garde literary traditions