Our tutors & editors
Learn from celebrated authors
We have over 30 renowned writers with teaching experience on our team.
Charlotte Mendelson
- Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction
- Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
Catherine Johnson
- Author of over 20 novels
- Carnegie medal nominee
Laura Barnett
- #1 Bestselling author
- Author of 5 acclaimed novels
Ali Shaw
- Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize
- Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
Anna Davis
- Founder and director of Curtis Brown Creative
- Author of 5 acclaimed novels
Suzannah Dunn
- Author of 13 novels
- Over a quarter of a million copies sold in the UK alone
Jacob Ross
- Winner of the 2017 Jhalak Prize
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press
Anna Freeman
- Winner of the 2013 Tibor Jones Pager-Turner Prize
- Author of 2 historical novels
- Host of Radio 4's human interest arts programme, Sketches: Stories of Art and People.
Our editors
Get feedback from published authors or experts with proven track records at acclaimed publishing houses or literary agencies. We match editors to courses that reflect the genres they specialise in.
Wyl Menmuir
- Award-winning author
- Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
- Provides feedback to our Write to the End of Your Novel students
Dzifa Benson
- Widely-published poet
- Multi-disciplinary artist working across fields that include prose, theatre-making, performance, essays and criticism.
- Provides feedback to our Writing Poetry students
Anthony Trevelyan
- Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize
- Creative Writing teacher
- Provides feedback to our Starting to Write Your Novel students
Jane Porter
- Award-winning picture book author and illustrator
- Provides feedback to our picture book students