University of Kent at Canterbury

Adriana Hunter is an award-winning translator of French. Since ‘discovering’ the first book she was to translate in 1998, she…

Laura Barnett is a bestselling author interested in the way fiction can take the world we know, and our own…

Alice Albinia is an award-winning author of conjoined works of fiction and nonfiction. Her first book, Empires of the Indus:…

Rhiannon Tise is an award-winning writer for radio, theatre and television. In 2017 her ten-part adaptation of Louisa May Allcott’s…

­Ann Morgan is a writer and editor, and the author of two critically acclaimed books. The first, Reading the World:…

Maggie Butt is an ex-journalist and BBC television producer, turned poet and novelist. Her publications include five poetry collections, and…

Alicia Foster trained as an art historian before becoming a novelist. Her first novel Warpaint (Penguin, Figtree, 2013) tells the…

Tim Walker turned to writing children’s novels at the age of 45 and is the author of the Fizzle trilogy…

Sarah Salway is a novelist, poet and journalist. She’s the author of three novels – Something Beginning With, Tell Me…

Gillian McClure writes and illustrates for children aged three to seven years, specialising in high-quality picture books. Her first book…

Katherine Pierpoint’s poetry collection, Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995), has won various awards, and was recommended by the Poetry Book Society. Her work…