RORY MACLEAN is the author of more than a dozen books including the UK top tens Stalin’s Nose and Under the Dragon as well as Berlin: Imagine a City, a book of the year and ‘the most extraordinary work of history I’ve ever read’ according to the Washington Post. He has won awards from the Canada … Read more
NICHOLAS PIERPAN is a playwright and screenwriter. In film he won the Script Factory Serious Screenwriting Award, was commissioned by the BBC to write a film for its iPlayer Shorts strand, and is now developing a feature film. In television, Nicholas was selected for the BBC Drama Production Writers’ Scheme, for which he wrote an … Read more
JESSICA J. LEE is a British-Canadian-Chinese author and environmental historian. Her first book, Turning, was published by Virago Books in 2017 and named among the best books of the year by both Canadian newspaper The National Post and German newspaper Die Zeit. It was named a Notable Book by the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing … Read more
LAURA KAYE grew up in a village in Oxfordshire. After working at the BBC for eight years in the Music department she took a year out to study creative writing at Goldsmiths and in 2017 her debut novel English Animals was published by Little, Brown – part satire of English country life, part lesbian love … Read more
DIVYA GHELANI holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Literary Studies from the University of Hong Kong. Her novel-in-progress has been longlisted and shortlisted for four literary awards. She lives between the UK and Berlin and is Programme Associate for the UK’s leading literary salon, the … Read more
SHARLENE TEO is a Singaporean novelist based in London. She won the Deborah Rogers Writer’s Award for Ponti, her debut novel due to be published in April 2018 by Picador (UK) and Simon & Schuster (US). Ponti will also be translated into six other languages, including German, by Aufbau-Verlag. She was shortlisted for the Berlin Writing Prize and is … Read more
KATE BROWN is a writer and film-maker. She is the recipient of a 2020 Grant for Non-German Literature, awarded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Her first novel ‘The Women of Versailles’, set during the reign of Louis XV, was published by Seren Books in 2017. Her short stories have been published … Read more
IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a writer and Arts Project Manager and author of Speak Gigantular and Butterfly Fish, which won a Betty Trask award. Her work has been featured in The Observer, The Guardian, the BBC, and the Huffington Post. Hailed by Ben Okri as a dynamic writing talent to watch and featured in the Evening Standard Magazine, she is one of London’s … Read more
FATIN ABBAS’ first novel, Ghost Season, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton & Co. Her short fiction has appeared in Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on Arrival, The Warwick Review, and Friction, and her non-fiction and journalism writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation, Die Zeit, Bidoun, and openDemocracy, among … Read more
TOM PUGH studied art history in Glasgow before inventing a career as a travelling copywriter and teacher, living and working in London, Sydney and Tokyo before settling in Berlin with his wife and two children. The Devil’s Library is his first novel, inspired by his own overland journey from Moscow to Naples .A ‘renaissance thriller’, The … Read more
JOY C. MITCHELL is a screenwriter, journalist, and story consultant with an MFA in Creative Writing & Screenwriting from Emerson College. Previously, she studied journalism and screenwriting at USC. A Los Angeles native, she’s worked in TV development and production at NBCUniversal’s Syfy and Universal Cable Productions, the USA Network’s studio, where she provided story … Read more
KENNY FRIES is the author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Carroll and Graf), which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and Body, Remember: A Memoir (Dutton), as well as the editor of Staring Back: The Disability … Read more
