Writers Directory

Playwright and screenwriter Peter Straughan was born in 1968 and grew up in Gateshead in the north-e...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Short Stories

Jeremy Strong writes books for children, mainly of junior school age, and has a special interest in ...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction

Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970 and grew up in Bedford and St Albans. He studied Englis...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965 and brought up in Japan, England and Chile. She studied at Oxford ...

Genres:

• Non-Fiction

Luke Sutherland was born in London and was brought up in Orkney by his adopted parents. He was educa...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories

John Sutherland was born in 1938 and is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Litera...

Genres:

• Non-Fiction

Novelist Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' Colleg...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories

Writer and actress Meera Syal was born in 1963 near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and was educa...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Short Stories

David Szalay was born in Montreal, Canada in 1974, moved to the UK the following year and has lived ...

Genres:

• Fiction

George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest and came to England as a refugee following the Hungarian...

Genres:

• Children
• Graphic novels and Illustration
• Libretto
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), L...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

D.J. Taylor was born in 1960, studied at St John's College, Oxford and is a writer and critic. His c...

Genres:

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

Sara Taylor grew up in Virginia and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Univers...

G. P. Taylor was born and grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire, moving to London as a teenager. He work...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and educator.She was UK Performance Poetr...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

Roma Tearne is a painter, installation artist, film maker and writer. She left Sri Lanka aged ten ye...

Genres:

• Fiction

Kae Tempest is a playwright, poet, novelist and spoken word artist. They began performing when they ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Graphic novels and Illustration
• Poetry

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Libretto
• Poetry

Marcel Theroux is a screenwriter, a broadcaster and novelist. He is the son of travel writer Paul Th...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of three novels, Politics, The Escape an...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories