Simon Wroe
Simon Wroe is an award-winning writer and journalist. He is the author of the novels Chop Chop (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and winner of the Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Award) and Here Comes Trouble (shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize). His latest novel, Ghost Month, was published by Faber in 2026. He has written for the Guardian, the Economist, The Times and the Independent, among others, and teaches novel-writing at Curtis Brown Creative. He also wrote the screenplay for 'Sweet Dreams', a mixed-media film funded by the BFI and Factory International, staged at Aviva Studios in Manchester in 2024, starring Munya Chuwawa, Morgana Robinson, and Reggie Watts.