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Charlotte Mendelson

Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize

Catherine Johnson

Author of over 20 novels
Carnegie medal nominee

Laura Barnett

#1 Bestselling author
Author of 5 acclaimed novels

Ali Shaw

Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award

Anna Davis

Founder and director of Curtis Brown Creative
Author of 5 acclaimed novels

Suzannah Dunn

Author of 13 novels
Over a quarter of a million copies sold in the UK alone

Jacob Ross

Winner of the 2017 Jhalak Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press

Anna Freeman

Winner of the 2013 Tibor Jones Pager-Turner Prize
Author of 2 historical novels
Host of Radio 4's human interest arts programme, Sketches: Stories of Art and People.

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Wyl Menmuir

Award-winning author
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Creative Writing lecturer
Available for mentoring & full manuscript reports
Genres: Non-fiction, Literary fiction, Reading group

Dzifa Benson

Widely-published poet
Creative producer, playwright and writer
Shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize
Provides feedback to our Writing Poetry students
Genres: Literary fiction & poetry

Anthony Trevelyan

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize
English and Creative Writing teacher
Available for mentoring & full manuscript reports
Genres: Literary fiction & Reading group

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Our tutors & editors

Learn from celebrated authors

Charlotte Mendelson

Catherine Johnson

Laura Barnett

Ali Shaw

Anna Davis

Suzannah Dunn

Jacob Ross

Anna Freeman

Our editors

Wyl Menmuir

Dzifa Benson

Anthony Trevelyan

Learn from celebrated authors

Charlotte Mendelson

Catherine Johnson

Laura Barnett

Ali Shaw

Anna Davis

Suzannah Dunn

Jacob Ross

Anna Freeman

Our editors

Wyl Menmuir

Dzifa Benson

Anthony Trevelyan