WYL MENMUIR is a novelist, editor and literary consultant based in Cornwall. His first novel, The Many, was nominated for the 2016 Booker Prize and was an Observer Best Fiction of the Year pick. His 2022 non-fiction book on Cornish and Scilly Isles communities, The Drawof Sea, won the Roger Deakin Award; this was followed by The Heart of The Woods in 2024.
His writing has appeared in the Guardian and the Observer, his short fiction and essays have appeared in Best British Short Stories and Elementum Journal, and he has been published by Nightjar Press and National Trust among others.
He is co-creator of the Cornish writing centre, The Writers’ Block, and is an experienced workshop leader and mentor. He tutors at Arvon, is a lecturer in creative writing at Falmouth University, and an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction; short stories; narrative non-fiction
- Location: Truro & Falmouth (Cornwall)
- Possible meeting places: Hall for Cornwall café (Truro); Falmouth Public Library
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