Livi Michael
Novelist, Children's writer
About
Livi Michael has written novels for adults, young adults and children.
Her twentieth novel, Reservoir, was published in March 2023 by Salt. Her short stories have been published in various places including Granta, The Lonely Crowd and the Manchester Review, and have been long listed for the BBC National Short Story Award. Her play, Singers Not Sinnerswas performed in Oldham in 2022.
She has taught creative writing in various universities and for the Arvon Foundation, and currently runs a podcast about short stories with the writer and translator Sonya Moor.
More from Livi Michael
My Genre’s Status, part 2
In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about the challenges of working in a currently-popular genre. In the second installment…
Livi Michael
Livi Michael speaks with Frances Byrnes about the appeal of the epic and the need for courage. Livi Michael speaks…
My True Genre
The RLF takes an inside look at the shoals of literary genre, and how writers navigate them. The RLF takes…
Livi Michael – Letter To My Younger Self
If you have an image of a writer it is of someone who lives in a house in the county…
What Do Authors Want?
Livi Michael ponders whether it’s better to be discovered or valued. ‘Discoverability’ is the new buzzword in publishing. It is…
Livi Michael
Novelist, Children's writer
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Posts
- Lancaster University, 2012–2013
- University of Leeds, Environment, 2010–2012