Wright, Patrick
Patrick Wright is the author of The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (2020) and of seven books before that. A freelance writer, broadcaster and occasional curator for many years, he is now an emeritus professor in the Department of English at King’s College London and a fellow of the British Academy.
Wack, Amy
Amy grew up in Southern California. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York and worked for over 30 years as Poetry Editor for Seren Books, based in Wales, and was Director of the Cardiff Poetry Festival. Her own poems have appeared in Long Poem magazine, New Welsh Review, Poetry […]
Woof, Pamela
Woof CBE, Robert
Dr Robert Samuel Woof (20 April 1931 – 7 November 2005) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been […]
Whitemore, Hugh
Wyndham, Francis
Francis Wyndham was an author, literary editor and journalist. He became an editor at Queen magazine and in 1964 moved to The Sunday Times, where he stayed until 1980. He became Jean Rhys’ literary executor after her death in 1979.
Weissbort, Daniel
Wilkins, Verna
Verna Wilkins is founder of Tamarind Books, which she ran for 23 years. She is the author of 30 Picture Books and eight biographies aimed at young people. Tamarind Books have won many awards, including the Decibel Cultural Diversity Award 2008. They have also featured on BBC TV children’s programmes and were also included in […]
Wood, Gaby
Gaby Wood is the Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, where she oversees matters ranging from the selection of prize judges to reading groups in prisons to an annual creative writing scholarship at the University of East Anglia. Prior to that she was Head of Books at the Telegraph, and for 15 years she was a staff writer […]
Wakatama Allfrey, Ellah
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE was born in Zimbabwe and raised there and in the United States. She is the founding Publishing Director of The Indigo Press, Senior Research Fellow at Manchester University (Centre for New Writing) and Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She is a judge for the 2019 Northern Writers’ Awards Fiction […]
Wyld, Evie
Evie Wyld is the author of two novels, All the Birds Singing (2013) and After the Fire, A Still Small Voice (2009), and one graphic memoir, Everything is Teeth (2015). The Wynches, her third novel, is due out next year. In 2014 she was the winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the European Union Prize, […]
Williams, Eley
Eley Williams’s published works include a pamphlet of poetry, Frit (2017), and a collection of prose, Attrib. and other stories (2017). The latter was chosen by Ali Smith as one of 2017’s best debut collections of fiction at the Cambridge Literary Festival and went on to win the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Recent work has […]