Fiction
Published and soon to be published novels include: The Artist (John Murray. Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025) by Lucy Steeds, Hero (Tinder Press) by Katie Buckley, Shibboleth by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert (Europa Editions), Jamaica Road (Dialogue) by Lisa Smith, Mazeltov (Footnote) by Eli Zuzovsky, The Broken Places by Russell Franklin (Phoenix), The Girl with the Louding Voice (Sceptre) and And So I Roar (Sceptre. Winner of the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize) by Abi Daré, Theatre of Marvels and House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth (Penguin), Wild Pets (Faber) by Amber Medland, Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah (The Borough Press), The Silence Project and Scenes from a Tragedy (Corvus Books) by Carole Hailey, The Daffodil Days (Bloomsbury) by Helen Bain, A Sign of Her Own (Tinder Press) by Sarah Marsh, The Hounding (Cornerstone) by Xenobe Purvis, The Tower (Penguin) by Flora Carr, and Wanting (Viking, 2027) by Molly Pepper Steemson.
And for children and young adults: Kamizen: Fortress of Lost Memories (Scholastic) by William Yamaguchi Dobson, and The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair (Harper Collins) by Natasha Hastings, The Destiny of Minou Moonshine and The Voyage of Sam Singh (Zephyr) by Gita Ralleigh and Bad Queer (Faber) by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan.
And short story awards have been won by Leeor Ohayon (VS Pritchett Award for 'Gahnun on Shabbat'), Monica Kam (The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing for 'A Braided Pulse') Annie Hodson (Virago Short Story Competition for 'Banshee'), Pádhraic Quinn (Irish Book Award for Best Short Story for 'All the Birch Trees Were Waving'), Erika Banerji (Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition for 'Christopher').
Non-fiction
Non-fiction includes Guest Privileges by Gaar Adams (Harvill Secker), Living Well with Chronic Illness by Grace Quantock (Orion Spring), In for Dinner (Vintage Publishing) by Rosie Kellett, The Vagina Business by Marina Gerner (Icon Books), Windward Family (Thread Books) by Alexis Keir, Elena: A Hand Made Life (Jonathan Cape) by Miriam Gold, Attention Seeker (Dialogue) by Amber Medland, INK! (The History Press) by Yvonne Singh, Woman's Lore (Apollo) and The Dead of Winter (Granta Books) By Sarah Clegg, Islands of Forgotten Daughters (Chatto & Windus) by Carla Montemayor, Breaking Silence: The Daughters of Iran (Canongate, 2027) by AD Aaba Atach and The Genius of Trees (Bodley Head) by Harriet Rix.
Poetry
A number of poetry collections and pamphlets, including: every house needs a ghost (The Braag) by Timothy Fox, Red Strings Between (VERVE Poetry Press) by Rachael Li Ming Chong, Small Undetectable Thefts (Broken Sleep Books) by Yanita Georgieva, My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst (Verve) by Ellen McAteer, Spit Valve (Ignition Press) by Eve Ellis, The Point is You Are Alive (Broken Sleep Books) by Natalie Whittaker, One Language (The Poetry Business) by award-winning poet and photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Ripe (Oxford Brookes University Press) and Chaotic Good (Faber. Won the Forward Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection) by Isabelle Baafi, The Protection of Ghosts (V) and Divinations on Survival (Liverpool University Press) by Natalie Linh Bolderston, G&T (Out-Spoken Press) by Oakley Flanagan, The Same Sound Twice (Seren Books) by Zakia Carpenter-Hall, I Am Evidence, Courtney Conrad and The Barman (Bad Betty Press) by Helen Bowell, Dyke Juvenilia (Poetry London Editions) by Olive Franklin.
Stage, Screen & Radio
Stage, screen and radio success include, Sig Sagar (Biting Point Produced by Middle Child Theatre), Jessica Edwards (Private Eye played at Soho Theatre), Maryam Garad (Reparations won the Tony Craze Award), Megan Smith (Wool Coat, her short film achieved BIFA Qualifying status), Daniel Marc Janes (The Crown), Kate Perry (Ruthless, winner of Best Irish Short Film, The Indie Cork International Film Festival; Best Celtic Short, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival; Best Short Film, The Waterford Film Festival; and more), Kumyl Saied (Do Not Resuscitate, nominated for Best Drama Short at BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival), Will Lord (The Billionaire Inside Your Head ran at Hampstead Theatre) and Paolo Chianta (Eat and Run on BBC Radio 4, finalist for Best Original Single Drama, BBC Audio Drama Awards), Olga Braga (winner of the 2025 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for her play Donbas), Abby J Walker (won 2025's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award for The Counsellor, to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds) and Simon Jaggers (play Gun to Your Head toured the UK with HighTide and is published by Playdead Press), Temi Majekodunmi (Special Mention in the George Devine Awards for Positive), Gayathiri Kamalakanthan (Period Parrrty played at Soho Theatre).
