Goldsmiths, University of London
Current Fellow(s)
Taran Khan
Taran N. Khan is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, was…
Roy Williams
Roy began writing plays in 1990. In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine award and in 2001…
Former Fellow(s)
Sonia Faleiro
South London
I am a nonfiction author, journalist, professor, and activist in London. I’ve written three books, most recently The Good Girls:…
Barbara Norden
Bara Norden is a writer of plays, many of which tend towards the comic and fantastical. Her first commissioned play,…
Simon Robson
Simon Robson trained as an actor and wrote initially for the theatre. His first play The Ghost Train Tattoo was…
Marianne Kavanagh
Marianne Kavanagh is an author and journalist. Her first two novels were translated into eight languages and sold all over…
Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert has published four novels, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one…
Dyan Sheldon
Dyan Sheldon has written over fifty titles, ranging from picture books and children’s fiction to young adult and adult novels.…
Wendy Wallace
Wendy Wallace writes novels exploring the lives of Victorian women. Her first, The Painted Bridge, was set in a women’s…
Stephen Sharkey
Stephen Sharkey is a playwright. He grew up in Liverpool and then studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Throughout…
Charles Jennings
Charles Jennings is a writer and journalist whose books range from the bestselling travelogue Up North (Little, Brown, 1994), to…
Annie Caulfield
Travel writer, dramatist and broadcaster, Annie Caulfield liked to tell stories, whatever the form. She published regularly in newspapers and…
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin is a novelist, short-story writer and teacher. She grew up in London, with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels,…
Shelley Silas
Shelley Silas writes for theatre, radio and television, and has also written a number of short stories. Her stage plays…
Tibor Fischer
The son of Hungarian refugees, Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959. His first novel, Under the Frog, was…
Antony Mason
Antony Mason is the author of more than 80 books — mostly illustrated books on history, art, current affairs, geography…
Elena Lappin
Elena Lappin is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of a collection of stories, Foreign Brides (Picador, 1999),…
Graeme Grant
Graeme Grant has published thirty books under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He is also a freelance…
David Benedictus
David Benedictus was educated at Eton, Balliol College, Oxford, and the State University of Iowa; his first job was as…
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is a novelist and short story writer. He knows this because he’s published a novel and a short…
Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan has published collections of poems including, A Word from the Loki (Faber, 1995) and Floods (Faber, 2000). He…
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy, poet, musician, critic, and editor, was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954 and moved to Britain…
Brian Keaney
Brian Keaney is an award-winning children’s author. He has written 20 novels for young people, which have been translated into…
Frank McLynn
Frank McLynn is an historian and biographer who works across a number of fields. Much of his historiographical work has…
Andrew Sant
Andrew Sant was born in London and educated there and in Melbourne after his family emigrated to Australia. He has…
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