Writing Yorkshire

Mariam Ansar is a freelance writer and secondary school teacher. Her writing was personally selected by guest editor Kate Bush to feature in The Mays Anthology 2017/18 – a collection of the best new writing from Oxford and Cambridge. She was the first recipient of the At Sea writing residency and was also an Editorial Fellow at BuzzFeed UK. Her work – which ranges from feature writing to politics to film studies and music – has been featured in NME, gal-dem, VICE, Dazed, Catapult Story, Rookie Magazine, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, and many others. Good For Nothing is her debut novel.

Linda Green is the bestselling author of eleven novels, which have sold more than a million copies between them. Her latest novel, One Moment, was a Radio 2 Book Club selection, and her previous novel, The Last Thing She Told Me, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a Top 20 Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and son.

Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel The List of Suspicious Things is inspired by her childhood in the 1970’s. Jennie is a former FTSE100 HR Director who after taking redundancy began to write. She is now a Creative Writing PhD student at Bristol university and lives in the Somerset countryside.

Liz Mistry, moved to Yorkshire the late ’80s, She crafts gritty crime fiction rooted in Bradford. Childhood tales from Scotland infuse her work with intrigue, inspiring her latest series set in West Lothian. Battling clinical depression and anxiety, she intertwines mental health themes into her narratives, influenced by her MA in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University. Completing a doctorate in creative writing, she explores representation in her beloved genre. Supported by her husband, three children, and a vast British Indian family, Liz finds solace in Scottish and Yorkshire landscapes, travel, music, and blogging on crime fiction.