University of Sussex
Current Fellow(s)
Richard Madden
Richard Madden is an award-winning travel writer and author who has written, co-written or ghost-written eight books. These include two…
Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod is a leading novelist and short story writer, with a particular interest in the porous boundaries between realist…
Nikki Sheehan
Nikki Sheehan is an award-winning YA author, journalist, mentor and creative writing teacher. She has published six books, both fiction…
Former Fellow(s)
Tessa Boase
Tessa Boase is an editor, journalist and author, specialising in popular history books for adults. After a career in national…
Tom Connolly
Tom Connolly is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Spider Truces and Men Like Air. His work is…
Ros Barber
Ros Barber is a novelist interested in history/biography and science/technology. Her critically acclaimed verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) was…
Sue Roe
Sue Roe is an acclaimed biographer and poet with a strong interest in the visual arts. Her first biography, Gwen…
Hannah Vincent
Hannah Vincent is an award-winning playwright. She has also written two novels, Alarm Girl (2014) and The Weaning (2018) and…
Bethan Roberts
Bethan Roberts has published four novels and also writes drama for BBC Radio 4. Her novels The Good Plain Cook…
Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke wrote and directed his first play The Jackpot at the Finborough; as a result of its success he…
Mick Jackson
Mick Jackson writes fiction and screenplays. His first novel The Underground Man (Faber, 1997) was shortlisted for the Booker prize…
Siân Rees
Siân Rees is a writer of historical non-fiction. Her first book The Floating Brothel, about a shipful of female convicts…
Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills is a poet. Her work has been described as darkly British, surreal and elegant. While many of her…
Sue Teddern
Sue Teddern’s many radio dramas include Cooking in a Bedsitter, five series of soloparentpals.com, In Mates, Sad Girl and The…
Cath Senker
An award-winning non-fiction writer and editor, Cath is also a university and ESOL teacher. Originally a project manager and editor…
Stephen Wyatt
Stephen Wyatt is the only writer to have won the Tinniswood award for best original radio script twice – for…
Josephine Balmer
Josephine Balmer is a poet and translator. Her works include the Bloodaxe publications – Sappho: Poems and Fragments, short-listed for…
Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey is an award-winning writer. Born in Trinidad, she has written a trilogy of novels, which engage with the…
Judith Kazantzis
Judith Kazantzis is a British poet who is also a fiction-writer and printmaker. She lives in East Sussex. Her first…
Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill was born in London. His first collection of poetry, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award.…
Todd Kingsley-Jones
Todd Kingsley-Jones was born and grew up in South Africa. He always wanted to be a writer, in between wanting…
Robin Waterfield
Robin Waterfield is a non-fiction and academic writer, whose numerous titles include; Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis, Macmillan, 2002 (Spanish…
Hugh Stoddart
Hugh Stoddart has had a long career as a screenwriter. His first feature-length original screenplay Remembrance was shortlisted for an Evening…
Jonathan Buckley
Jonathan Buckley is a novelist and guidebook writer. He was born in Birmingham, grew up in Dudley, and studied English…
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