Writers

Raymond Antrobus

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

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

Neel Mukherjee

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

Nikesh Shukla

Author, novelist, diversity champion, filmmaker, average rapper

Jenni Fagan

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

Hollie McNish

I like writing poetry a lot. And I like being alive

Catherine O'Flynn

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

Thomas Morris

Short story writer; Wales Book of the Year; editor

James Robertson

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

Andrew Michael Hurley

In love with the landscapes of the North

Karen McCarthy Woolf

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

Emma Jane Unsworth

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

Liz Berry

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

William Letford

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

Una

Not funny

Nadeem Aslam

Born in Pakistan, a novelist living in England

Gavin Francis

Writer and doctor exploring geographical, anatomical and cultural landscapes

Frances Hardinge

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

Sandeep Parmar

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

Lucy Caldwell

Novelist, playwright, radio dramatist and most recently short story writer

Hannah Berry

Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker

Sarah Howe

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

Paul McVeigh

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

Jo Mazelis

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

Sophia Walker

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

Tiffany Murray

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

Bernardine Evaristo

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

Christie Watson

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

Karrie Fransman

Comic creator/graphic novelist who loves experimenting with visual storytelling 

Patrick McGuinness

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

Kayo Chingonyi

Lyric poet with a passion for music

Denise Mina

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

Louise Welsh

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

Kerry Hudson

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

Sarah Perry

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

Niven Govinden

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