Writers

Sabrina Mahfouz

Trying to make words that make a change, however small

Patrick McGuinness

Interested in what things look like when we're not looking

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Glenn Patterson

Serial optimist

Alex Bellos

Mathematics. Puzzles. Brazil. Football. Pool, elliptically

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Christopher Brookmyre

Permanently excited by the possibility of being wrong about everything

Stephen Collins

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

Stephen Kelman

In the words of the underdog I find my voice

Malika Booker

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

Bernardine Evaristo

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

Max Porter

Tall, pale, bookish, sleepy, poorly-postured, European, sentimental

James Meek

Human writer 

Harry Josephine Giles

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

Nadeem Aslam

Born in Pakistan, a novelist living in England

Niven Govinden

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

Neel Mukherjee

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

Emma Jane Unsworth

Novelist and screenwriter. Northerner. Romantic. Likes wine. GSOH

Courttia Newland

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

Janice Galloway

Work alone and/or collaborate (painters, sculptors, libretti - all comers)

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Jenn Ashworth

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

Sophia Walker

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

Nick Harkaway

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

James Robertson

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

Leontia Flynn

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

Una

Not funny

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Vahni Capildeo

Solitary gregarious impossible animal sleeps furiously, writes devouringly, bakes cakes

Ros Barber

Emotionally lucid novelist of speculative pasts and futures

Thomas Morris

Short story writer; Wales Book of the Year; editor

Tiffany Murray

Borderland writer. Welsh and Scottish. Travel to write. Rocknroll.

Raymond Antrobus

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

Jan Carson

Belfast based novelist and short story writer. Magic realist

Ned Beauman

Author of three novels, Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Sarah Moss

Reading, writing, talking, running, cooking: I miss hills and sea

Louise Welsh

genre crossing, novelist, librettist, enquiring, political, feminist, sociable-loner, bookworm  

Naomi Wood

Writer and teacher of novels and films

William Letford

Rotten with wonder, searching for grit, beauty, dignity and heart

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Author of His Bloody Project. Ageing existentialist. Black pudding aficionado.

Frances Hardinge

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

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

Amy Liptrot

Writer from a Scottish island. I'm all ears

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Andrew McMillan

Young poet exploring masculinity and the body

Gavin Francis

Writer and doctor exploring geographical, anatomical and cultural landscapes

Kathleen Jamie

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

Caleb Femi

Poet. English Teacher. Photographer. Filmaker.

Paul McVeigh

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

Kit de Waal

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

Isabel Greenberg

Illustrator, writer, comics, graphic novels