Writers

Sabrina Mahfouz

Trying to make words that make a change, however small

James Robertson

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

Tiffany Murray

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

Kerry Hudson

Scottish, queer, working class novelist. Loves to perform, travel, teach

Frances Hardinge

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

Patrick McGuinness

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

Rhian Edwards

Welsh poet & single mum, twitcher & horror film nut

Christopher Brookmyre

Permanently excited by the possibility of being wrong about everything

Denise Mina

Curious reader, book-loving, flâneause, cyclist, angry-loner, collectivist socialist

James Meek

Human writer 

Jan Carson

Belfast based novelist and short story writer. Magic realist

Niven Govinden

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

Tessa Hadley

Novelist and short story writer

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Sandeep Parmar

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

Laura Dockrill

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

Carys Davies

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

Richard Beard

Curious, experimental, mashed-up

Janice Galloway

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

Ifor ap Glyn

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

Courttia Newland

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

Kit de Waal

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

Paul McVeigh

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

David Szalay

London writer, European, also Canadian

Vahni Capildeo

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

Horatio Clare

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

Catherine O'Flynn

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

Max Porter

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

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Nick Harkaway

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

Jenni Fagan

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

Joanna Walsh

Fictionist, autofictionist, essayist, journalist, experimentalist

Ned Beauman

Author of three novels, Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Bernardine Evaristo

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

Neel Mukherjee

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

Christie Watson

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