Writers Directory

This database was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary British Literature, offering unique critical perspectives of the work of some of the writers living and working in the UK today. Our website is currently under review and as a result we are not updating the database or adding new entries at this time.  Please check our blog pages for updates on our current Literature programmes. 

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Owen Sheers 2015 website

Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was educated at ...

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Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London. He gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University o...

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer. She is the autho...

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Henry Shukman is a poet, travel writer and fiction writer who lives in New Mexico. His novel, Sandst...

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Shuttle Jemimah Kuhfeld website

Penelope Shuttle was born in 1947 in Middlesex, and has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970, a pl...

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Schlock imagery by Field and McGlynn June 14 007 website

Hannah Silva is an award winning writer and theatre maker. She was born in Dorset, grew up in Suffol...

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Posy Simmonds was born in 1945 and grew up in Berkshire. She studied Graphic Design at the Central S...

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Helen Simpson was born in Bristol and grew up in London. She read English at Oxford University, wher...

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Iain Sinclair 2011 credit Joy Gordon website

Iain Sinclair was born in 1943 in Cardiff, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the Courtauld Ins...

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Simon Singh website

Simon Singh is an author, journalist and television producer, specialising in science and mathematic...

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Indra Sinha was born in 1950, the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer, Irene Elizab...

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lemnsissay website

Lemn Sissay is the author of five poetry collections: Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (1988); Rebe...

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Zoë Skoulding was born in 1967 and has lived in north Wales since 1991, having previously grown up m...

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Gillian Slovo website Charlie hopkinson

Novelist Gillian Slovo was born in 1952 in South Africa, the daughter of Joe Slovo, leader of the So...

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Dorothea Smartt was born and brought up in London and is of Barbadian heritage. She worked for many ...

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Ali Smith 2015 Sarah Wood website

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge.   Her books have won and been shortl...

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Zadie Smith Credit Dominique Nabokov 2012 website

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. Sh...

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Ahdaf Soueif website

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a P...

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Alan Spence by Calum Colvin website

Alan Spence was born in Glasgow and is a poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. He is Pr...

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