Our mentors and their areas of speciality are listed here – click on any name to find out more. All mentors offer online meetings and most offer in-person meetings locally.
When contacting us about mentoring or manuscript assessment, you can suggest mentors you would like to work with and/or we are happy to use our experience to make suggestions.
Mentor directory (alphabetical by surname)
EVE AINSWORTH (West Sussex)
Commercial women’s fiction, young adult, middle grade
YVONNE BATTLE-FELTON (Lancaster)
Literary fiction, historical fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction
SUSAN BARKER (Manchester)
Literary fiction
LAURA BARNETT (Kent)
Literary fiction, book club fiction, domestic fiction, journalism, short stories
MARTYN BEDFORD (Leeds & Bradford)
Literary & commercial fiction, short stories, young adult fiction
JACQUIE BLOESE (Brighton)
Book club fiction, commercial fiction
RP BOLTON (Manchester & Leeds)
Thrillers, young adult fiction, older children’s fiction
NAOMI BOOTH (York & Durham)
Literary fiction, experimental fiction, genre fiction (horror, speculative fiction, cli-fi), novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction
MEGAN BRADBURY (Norwich)
Literary fiction, experimental fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction
GLEN JAMES BROWN (Manchester)
Literary & commercial fiction, short stories
SARAH BUTLER (Manchester)
Literary & literary/commercial crossover fiction, short stories
JAN CARSON (Belfast)
Literary fiction
RACHEL CONNOR (Leeds, Manchester & Halifax)
Literary fiction and short stories, literary erotica, radio & stage scriptwriting
ALISTAIR DANIEL (Liverpool)
Literary fiction, short stories
ROSIE GARLAND (Manchester)
Literary fiction, historical fiction, magic realist fiction, short stories
EVE GRUBIN (London)
Poetry, literary non-fiction, academic writing
OLIVER HARRIS (Manchester)
Crime & thrillers
EMMA HENDERSON (Newcastle-under-Lyme & Stoke-on-Trent)
Literary fiction, short stories, life writing
NICK HOLDSTOCK (Edinbrugh & Glasgow)
Literary fiction (novels and short stories), non-fiction (memoir, travel, reportage, narrative non-fiction, history & politics, essays & journalism)
KIRSTIN INNES (Glasgow & Paisley)
Literary fiction, short stories, feature writing & arts journalism
SO MAYER (London)
Poetry, creative and critical non-fiction: essay and long-form, short- and long-form speculative fiction
WYL MENMUIR (Cornwall)
Literary fiction, short stories, narrative non-fiction
CATHERINE MENON (North London)
Literary fiction, short stories
SAM MILLS (London)
Literary fiction, memoir, young adult
ANN MORGAN (Kent & London)
Literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, blogging and blooks
IAN NETTLETON (Norwich)
Literary fiction, thrillers, science fiction, short fiction
IRENOSEN OKOJIE (London)
Literary & speculative fiction, short stories
LUCY RIBCHESTER (Edinburgh)
Crime, historical, quirky & literary/commercial crossover fiction, short stories, young adult fiction
HEATHER RICHARDSON (Belfast)
Literary & experimnetal fiction, historical fiction,short stories; creative non-fiction (memoir, lyric essay, narrative non-fiction, fiction-non-fiction hybrid)
BETHAN ROBERTS (Brighton)
Literary fiction, biographical fiction, short stories, radio drama
SARA SHERIDAN (Edinburgh)
Historical fiction and non-fiction, historical fiction cross-genre (historical crime, historical fantasy); also available for one-off PR, marketing & general publishing industry advice sessions
KATHERINE STANSFIELD (Cardiff)
Crime, historical fiction, fantasy, general commercial fiction, short stories
EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY (North Wales)
Literary fiction & literary/commercial crossover, biographical fiction, short stories, narrative non-fiction, memoir
JONATHAN TAYLOR (Leicester & London)
Literary fiction, short stories, memoir, poetry
SUMAYYA USMANI (Glasgow)
Non-fiction book proposal writing, non-fiction (focus on food & memoir)
WENDY VAIZEY (London & Hertfordshire)
Literary & commercial fiction (inc. some genre), short stories, memoir, biography & narrative non-fiction, young adult
ROBERT WILLIAMS (Manchester)
Literary & commercial fiction, crime fiction, short stories, young adult fiction
