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Anjana Appachana

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Anjana Appachana

Anjana Appachana was born and educated in India, where she did her B.A (Hons) in English at Delhi University and her M.A in Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University. After working in India for a few years she went...

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Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

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Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman

Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett are writing partners in Brooklyn. They met ten years ago as neighbors in the same apartment building, and soon after began collaborating on their debut novel, The Very Nice Box, which became a...

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Maame Blue

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Maame Blue

Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner, part-time Melbourne resident, and author of the novel Bad Love (Jacaranda Books), named as one of the top 3 debuts of 2020 by Cheltenham Literature Festival. She is the winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Award...

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Emily Buchanan

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Emily Buchanan

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Chloé Caldwell

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Chloé Caldwell

Chloé Caldwell is the author of Women (Fourth Estate reissue, 2024), the memoir The Red Zone (Soft Skull, 2022), and the essay collections I’ll Tell You in Person (Emily Books/Coffee House Press, 2016)...

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Grace Chan

Grace Chan

Grace Chan is an award-winning speculative fiction writer. She writes about brains, minds and space. Her debut novel, Every Version of You, won the University of Sydney’s People’s Choice Award and was shortlisted for...

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Sherryl Clark

Sherryl Clark

Sherryl Clark has had 40 children's and YA books published in Australia, and several in the US and UK, plus collections of poetry and four verse novels. She has taught writing at Holmesglen TAFE and Victoria University. She recently completed a...

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Georgina Clarke

Georgina Clarke

GEORGINA CLARKE has a degree in theology and completed a PhD in history part-time, while working as a parish priest. Her love of the past is at the heart of her fiction: her Lizzie Hardwicke crime series is set in...

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Tiffany Clarke Harrison

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Tiffany Clarke Harrison

TIFFANY CLARKE HARRISON writes about your feelings. The ones that feel good, the ones that don't, and definitely the ones you don't want anyone to know. Writing novels has always been the goal, and Blue Hour is her...

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Sophie Crawford

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Sophie Crawford

Sophie Crawford is a writer and musician based in London. My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding is her debut novel....

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Samantha Dooey-Miles

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Samantha Dooey-Miles

Samantha’s fiction focuses on first-person, female voices. Her work explores rage, shame, embarrassment and the significance seemingly small moments can hold. Her stories have been published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter and Postbox...

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Olivia Douglass

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Olivia Douglass

Olivia Douglass ;is a British Nigerian writer and artist born in Lewisham, South London to an English mother and Nigerian father. ;Douglass ;grew up between Wiltshire and West Somerset, before returning to London. Their writing navigates themes of desire, memory...

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Sarah Rose Etter

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Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of the chapbook Tongue Party and The Book of X, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Her work has appeared in Time, Guernica,...

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Stephanie Feldman

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Stephanie Feldman

STEPHANIE FELDMAN is the author of the debut novel The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, winner of the Crawford Fantasy Award, and finalist for the Mythopoeic Award. She is co-editor of...

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Angela Flournoy

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Angela Flournoy

ANGELA FLOURNOY is a novelist and essayist who lives in New York. Her new novel, The Wilderness, was longlisted for National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize in the United States. Her debut novel, The Turner Hous...

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Turner Gable Kahn

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Turner Gable Kahn

Turner Gable Kahn grew up in the extra-hold-hairspray ribbon of sunshine between the Everglades and the Atlantic’s best beach. Her higher education happened along the banks of the Schuylkill, and then the Hudson. She commuted endlessly across the...

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Curtis Garner

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Curtis Garner

Curtis Garner is the author of the ‘instant queer classic’ Isaac, which was published in 2024 to critical acclaim. He was born in Cornwall in 1996 and moved to London when he was eighteen to study Creative Writing...

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Robyn Gigl

Robyn Gigl

ROBYN GIGL is the author of the Erin McCabe legal thriller series and an attorney, speaker, and activist who has been honoured by the ACLU-NJ and the New Jersey Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community....

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Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett

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Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett

Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett are writing partners in Brooklyn. They met ten years ago as neighbors in the same apartment building, and soon after began collaborating on their debut novel, The Very Nice Box, which became a...

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Meredith Hambrock

Meredith Hambrock

Meredith Hambrock is the author of She's a Lamb!, an Indigo, McNally Robinson, and Rakuten-Kobo Best Book of the Year, and Other People's Secrets, called 'audacious' and 'fabulous' by the New York Times. Additionally,...

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Dylin Hardcastle

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Dylin Hardcastle

Dylin Hardcastle (he/they) is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and former Provost’s Scholar at the University of Oxford. They are the author of four critically acclaimed books. Their work has been translated into eight languages. Dylin is...

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Anne Heltzel

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Anne Heltzel

ANNE HELTZEL is a New York-based novelist and book editor. In addition to writing horror, she has penned several titles for children and young adults. Just Like Mother is her adult debut....

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Chloe Michelle Howarth

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Chloe Michelle Howarth

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari...

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Seth Insua

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Seth Insua

SETH INSUA is an Anglo-Spanish writer and artist. He was born in Kent in 1989. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a First in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and The London...

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Genevieve Jagger

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Genevieve Jagger

GENEVIEVE JAGGER is a queer, autistic witch from Scotland. Her debut novel, Fragile Animals, was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize, a Saltire Award and a British Book Award. Genevieve is a tarot reader, dealing fortunes across Glasgow...

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Jane Jesmond

Jane Jesmond

Jane Jesmond writes crime, thriller and mysteries. Her debut novel, On The Edge, the first in a series featuring dynamic, daredevil protagonist Jen Shaw was a Sunday Times Crime Fiction best book. The second in the...

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Rosalie Knecht

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Rosalie Knecht

Rosalie Knecht is the author of Who Is Vera Kelly?, Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery and Relief Map. She is also the translator of César Aira's The Seamstress and the ...

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Nicola Kraus

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Nicola Kraus

Nicola Kraus has coauthored, with Emma McLaughlin, ten novels, including the international #1-bestseller The Nanny Diaries, Citizen Girl, Dedication and The Real Real. Nicola has contributed to the Times, ...

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Betsy Lerner

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Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner is the author of the popular advice book to writers, The Forest for the Trees, and the memoirs Food and Loathing and The Bridge Ladies. She received an MFA from Columbia University...

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C. Michelle Lindley

C. Michelle Lindley

C. Michelle Lindley’s writing has been featured in The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, and more. She has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and a BA from the University of Berkeley in English...

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Susie Luo

Susie Luo

Susie Luo is a writer based in New York. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell Law School. She wrote at night while working as an investment banker. Paper Names is her first book....

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Tania Malik

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Tania Malik

Tania Malik is the author of Three Bargains and Hope You Are Satisfied. She was born in New Delhi and raised in India, Africa and the Middle East. She was educated in boarding...

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Divya Maniar

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Divya Maniar

Divya Maniar is a writer and dancer from Singapore. She studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Brown, and holds an M.Phil in English Literature from Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, The Rumpus and...

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Rachel McRady

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Rachel McRady

RACHEL McRADY is an Emmy-winning writer and editor for Entertainment Tonight. She's been writing novels since before she could write herself, dictating stories to her very patient mother on an old computer in the 90s. Sun Seekers...

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Lily Meyer

Lily Meyer

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance and Short War. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be...

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Nicola Monaghan

Nicola Monaghan

Nicola Monaghan is the author of the Sian Love mystery series including the critically acclaimed Dead Flowers and Wish You Were Here. Her debut novel, The Killing Jar, won a Betty Trask Award, the...

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Sophie Morton-Thomas

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Sophie Morton-Thomas

Sophie Morton-Thomas was born in West Sussex and has always loved reading and writing - she had about ten penfriends as a child. She is now an English teacher as well as a mum to three (two grown-up!) children and...

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Tara Moss

Tara Moss

Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, passionate and inspiring chronic pain and disability advocate, human rights activist, documentary and podcast host and former model. Her crime novels have been published in nineteen countries and thirteen languages, and her memoir,...

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Elle Nash

Elle Nash

ELLE NASH ;(she/her) is a British-American author and editor known for her fearless exploration of desire, identity and the human condition. Her most recent novel, ;Deliver Me, is a 'darkly vivid examination of faith, obsession and alienation'...

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Merle Nygate

Merle Nygate

Merle Nygate is a screenwriter, script editor, screenwriting lecturer and novelist; she's worked on BAFTA winning TV, New York Festival audio drama and written original sitcoms; previously she worked for BBC Comedy Commissioning as well as writing and script editing...

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Uche Okonkwo

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Uche Okonkwo

Uche Okonkwo's stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, and Lagos Noir, among others. A former Bernard O'Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference...

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Jane Pek

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Jane Pek

Jane Pek holds a BA from Yale University, where she received the Meeker Freshman Prize for Poetry, and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she received the Lainoff Prize and the Himan Brown Award, as well as a...

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Laurie Petrou

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Laurie Petrou

LAURIE PETROU is an award-winning author and Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. She lives in Niagara with her family. The Rayburn Affair is her sixth book....

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Alice Rogers

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Alice Rogers

Alice Rogers is a Welsh writer currently living in Scotland. In 2020 she graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class degree in Creative Writing. In her free time she enjoys collecting antiques, watching Seinfeld and walking...

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James Roseman

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James Roseman

James Roseman is an American writer based in Dublin, Ireland. He received his MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he received an Alumni Fellowship in January 2025. He is the recipient of an Agility Award...

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A. Rushby

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A. Rushby

A. Rushby (also writing as Allison Rushby), was gifted the middle name of Jane, for Jane Austen. Wordsmithing was duly destined and, under several pseudonyms, she has published more than thirty books. She has long been a fan of cities...

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Jenna Satterthwaite

Jenna Satterthwaite

Born in the Midwest, Jenna Satterthwaite grew up in Spain, lived briefly in France, and isnow happily settled in Chicago with her husband and three kids. Jenna studied classicalguitar, English Lit and French, and once upon a time was a...

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Genevieve Scott

Genevieve Scott

GENEVIEVE SCOTT is a Canadian writer. Her first novel, Catch My Drift, was published in 2018 with Goose Lane Editions and her short fiction has been published in literary journals in Canada and the UK. Genevieve holds an MFA...

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Laura Sims

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Laura Sims

Laura Sims’s previous novels How Can I Help You and Looker have been featured on Best Books lists in the New York Times Book Review, Vogue, People, ...

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Nina Michiko Tam

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Nina Michiko Tam

Originally from Hawai‘i, Nina Michiko Tam has lived or studied in New York, Germany, Paris and Dakar: all the settings in her debut novel, ;Tastes Like Seeing God. Nina graduated from Yale Law School in 2022 and...

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Kathy Wang

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Kathy Wang

Kathy Wang grew up in Northern California and holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children....

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Heather Young

Heather Young

Heather Young is the author of two novels. Her debut, The Lost Girls, won the Strand Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award. The Distant Dead was named one of the...

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Julie Zhou

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Julie Zhou

Julie Zhou ;was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and despite summers spent in Shanghai and a fleeting love affair with New England, she has always found her way back to the Midwest. These days, she lives with a household of chosen...

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