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Helen Simpson

UK | 2017 Helen Simpson is the author of six short-story collections: Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005), In-Flight [...]

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Karin Altenberg

Sweden, UK | 2017 Karin Altenberg was born in Sweden and moved to Britain in 1996. She currently lives in London. Her first novel, Island of Wings, was nominated for the Orange Prize, the Saltire [...]

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Maureen N. McLane

USA | 2017 What to say?  That my time in residence was wonderful, restorative, both calming and invigorating?  That amidst the hectic jostle of a new and troubled year the weeks at Santa [...]

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Makenzy Orcel

Haiti | 2016 Makenzy Orcel, “a solitary poet”, according to his Canadian editor Rodney Saint-Eloi, was born in 1983 in Port-au-Prince. After completing his studies in linguistics, he left [...]

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Isabella Hammad

UK | 2016 Isabella Hammad was born in London and educated at Oxford, Harvard and NYU. In 2013 she received the Harper Wood Creative Writing Studentship from Cambridge University, and she is the [...]

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Claire-Louise Bennett

UK | 2016 Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, which was shortlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2015 and has been translated into seven languages. Her stories and essays have appeared in [...]

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Andrés Barba

Spain | 2016 Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975), made his debut in 2001 with Katia’s Sister: finalist of the Herralde prize and later made into a film by Mijke de Jong). Then followed two [...]

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Polly Stenham

UK | 2016 Polly Stenham is a playwright. Her plays include That Face at the Royal Court, for which she was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2007 and the 2008 [...]

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Joshua Cohen

USA | 2016 Joshua Cohen was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1980. He is the author of five works of fiction – A Heaven of Others, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin [...]

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Ned Beauman

UK | 2016 Ned Beauman was born in 1985 in London. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His [...]