Campbell, James
James Campbell was born and raised in Glasgow. He left school at 15 to become a printer’s apprentice, and later studied English and American Literature at Edinburgh University. Between 1978-82, he was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, a quarterly magazine of literature and cultural affairs. He moved to London in the early 1980s and […]
Brook, Annette
Annette Brook has worked in literature development for 15 years, primarily in communications and marketing, for organisations including Spread the Word, the Royal Society of Literature and First Story. Her specialisms include digital communications, partnership development, volunteer management and supporting the career progression of writers. She has been an advisory board member for Penned in […]
McNish, Hollie
Hollie McNish is a bestselling poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Virgin, as well as her Sunday Times bestselling hybrid […]
Farr, David
David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He was previously Artistic Director of London’s Gate Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and The Lyric Hammersmith. He has written six original plays, published by Faber and Faber. His adaptations for stage include Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Homer’s The Odyssey. His first film The Ones Below premiered in 2015 […]
Makoha, Nick
Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of Obsidian Foundation. His new collection, The New Carthaginians, is published by Penguin. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for […]
Gunaratne, Guy
Guy is a British novelist and playwright, and winner ofthe Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, as well as a longlistee for the Booker, Goldsmith’s and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy served as Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and is the current editor of The Review by Writers Mosaic […]
Gbadamosi, Gabriel
Gabriel is an Irish and Nigerian poet and playwright. His London novel Vauxhall won the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize and Best International Novel at the Sharjah Book Fair. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths; a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge; and Writer in Residence […]
Crooks, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Crooks is a writer of novels, short stories and radio dramas. Fire Rush, her novel, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, the Authors Club Best First Novel Award and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel of the Year. For her short stories, published […]
Bonham-Carter, Victor
Victor Bonham-Carter was a zealous champion of authors and the countryside and enjoyed a varied career as an author, farmer and publisher. Bonham-Carter wrote a number of books about rural matters, including The English Village (1952). In the field of military history he published Soldier True: the life and times of Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson […]
Cooper, William
William Cooper (Harry Summerfield Hoff), was a novelist who depicted the mysteriousness of ordinary people through a naturalistic eye. He was the author of Scenes from a Provincial Life, (1950) hailed by writers including Kingsley Amis, Braine and Anthony Burgess. Amongst Cooper’s other novels – and a play – it was to be followed by […]
Prawer Jhabvala CBE, Ruth
Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne to a Polish father and German mother. The family relocated to Britain in 1939. She married Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951 and they moved to Delhi, after 1975 splitting their time between India and New York. Although perhaps best known for her screenwriting, her love of writing books superseded her […]