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Evie Wyld
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize.
Karen McLeod
Karen McLeod is a writer, performer and creative writing tutor and writer-in-residence at Bookseller Crow. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, was published by Jonathan Cape and won the Betty Trask Award and was translated widely.
Gráinne Lyons
Gráinne Lyons is a writer and documentary-maker from London, where she lives. Her work has been published in The Irish Times and Aesthetica magazine and she was shortlisted for the Mslexia first novel competition in 2017. As a documentary producer, she has produced numerous arts and history films.
Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell was is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, several stage plays and radio dramas, three collections of short stories, Multitudes, Intimacies, and Openings, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Orlaine McDonald
Orlaine McDonald is a writer of mixed Jamaican and Irish heritage, and lives in London. Her first novel, No Small Thing, published in 2024, was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards. Orlaine graduated from the MA Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths in 2014.
Nikkitha Bakshani
Nikkitha Bakshani is a London-based writer. She has an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, and has worked for publications like Food52, Departures, and the Paris Review. Her first novel Ghost Chilli was published in 2024 by Fleet. Nikkitha graduated from the MA Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths in 2019.
Doreen Cunningham
Doreen Cunningham is an Irish-British writer, who was born in Wales. She is the author of Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales, which won the 2020 Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction; and was shortlisted for The Pat Kavanagh Award and the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award; and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for writing on Global Conservation and the Society for the History of Natural History John Thackray Medal.