Mona Arshi is a poet and writer. She previously worked as a Human Rights Lawyer. Her debut collection Small Hands (Pavilion Poetry, 2015) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2015. Her second collection Dear Big Gods was published in April 2019 (Pavilion Poetry). Mona is co-editor of an anthology, Nature Matters, published by Faber in May 2025. Her third collection of… Read more »
Author type: Fiction
Kanya D’Almeida
Kanya D’Almeida is a Sri Lankan writer. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Jaggery and The Bangalore Review. She is the recipient of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her flash fiction is anthologized in Best Small Fictions (Sonder Press, 2021). She received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts…. Read more »
Saraid de Silva
Saraid de Silva is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her debut novel, Amma, was published in Australia and New Zealand by Moa Press, part of Hachette Aotearoa, and in the UK by Weatherglass Books in 2024. Amma was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction, part of the New Zealand book awards,… Read more »
K Patrick
K Patrick is a writer based in Scotland. Their work has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry Review, Granta and Five Dials, and was shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021, the same year that K was also shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize. In 2023 they were shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Their debut… Read more »
Clara Kumagai
Clara Kumagai is from Ireland, Japan and Canada. Her debut YA novel, Catfish Rolling (Zephyr, 2023), was a YOTO Carnegie Medal nominee, shortlisted for the Great Reads Award and winner of the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Books of the Year. Her sophomore novel, Songs for Ghosts, was longlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal for… Read more »
Melody Razak
Melody Razak is a British -Iranian fiction writer from London, with an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. Before she started writing, she owned treacle&co, a cafe in Brighton and more recently worked in the kitchens of Honey and Co in London as a pastry chef. Melody’s debut novel, Moth, tells the heart-rending story of… Read more »
Tess Little
Tess Little is a writer and historian. She was born in Norwich, read history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is currently studying for the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist… Read more »
Richard House
Richard House is a writer, artist, filmmaker and teacher. His first novel, Bruiser (Serpent’s Tail, 1997), was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Gay Fiction Award in the USA. This was followed by Uninvited (Serpent’s Tail, 2001), and The Kills Quartet (Picador, 2013). The Kills, the first book in the quartet, was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2013… Read more »
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written at the age of eight. The first few pages of this story appear in his novel What a Carve Up! (Viking, 1994). He continued writing fiction throughout… Read more »
Alistair Morgan
Alistair Morgan is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. His short stories have twice appeared in The Paris Review. In 2009 he won the George Plimpton Prize for Fiction for his stories Icebergs and Departure, which was also selected for the National Magazine Awards. His story Icebergs was short-listed for the 2009 Caine Prize… Read more »