Writers Directory

Simonetta Wenkert was born in 1965 of Italian-Austrian parents. She studied at Durham University and...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Translation

Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque country. She was Resident Writer for 'Shared...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

Adam Weymouth is an author and environmental activist. His work has been published in The Guardian, ...

Alex Wheatle is the author of several novels, some of them set in Brixton, where he grew up.Born in ...

Genres:

• Fiction

Ian Whybrow, children's author, was born in Gillingham, Kent and grew up in Margate and in Hong Kong...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

Matt Whyman is a young-adult novelist and a long-standing advice columnist for many teenage magazine...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Young Adult

Christopher Whyte is a poet, novelist, translator and critic. Born in Glasgow in 1952 of a Scottish ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

Poet and novelist Susan Wicks was born in Kent, England, in 1947. She read French at the Universitie...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Clare Wigfall is a British writer, born in Greenwich, London 1976. She spent her childhood in Berkel...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction

Sam Willetts was born in 1962 in Oxford, and raised there. His father was a scholar and translator o...

Genres:

• Poetry

Poet, journalist and travel writer Hugo Williams was born in 1942 in Windsor and grew up in Sussex. ...

Genres:

• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast on 24 February 1966 and studied English at St Catharine's C...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945 and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, where she ...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Andrew Norman Wilson was born in Staffordshire in 1950 and is best known as a biographer, novelist, ...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Simon Winchester is a writer and regular contributor to magazines and newspapers including Condé Nas...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up ...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Libretto
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Tim Winton began his first novel, An Open Swimmer (1982), at the age of 19, while on a Creative Writ...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Gerard Woodward was born in London in 1961 and studied art and anthropology. He has published a numb...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Poetry

Sophie Woolley is a writer and performer who specialises in spoken monologues. She performs in chara...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Poet and children's author Kit Wright was born in 1944 and educated at Oxford University. He lecture...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Poetry