Ian Nettleton

Ian Nettleton
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IAN NETTLETON has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the UEA and has taught creative writing at the UEA and currently lectures undergraduates and MA students in creative writing at the Open University and the National Centre for Writing. His National Centre for Writing podcast, How to Structure a Novel, can be found here.

After his previous literary thriller, The Last Migration, was runner-up in the 2014 Bath Novel Award and the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award; his literary thriller Out of Nowhere won the 2023 Bath Novel Award. His flash fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Edinburgh International Flash Fiction Award and longlisted for the Reflex Flash Prize. Additionally, short fiction and novel extracts have been included in numerous anthologies.

He has written and presented Sixty Second Classics – summarising works of fiction – for BBC TV’s Pebble Mill, appeared on Radio 4’s Open Book, produced covers for Unthank Books, and was an editorial assistant on Writing Talk: Interviews with Writers about the Creative Process (Routledge, 2020).

  • Areas of expertise: novels: literary, thrillers, science fiction; short fiction
  • Location: Norwich
  • Possible meeting place: Cafe Bar Marzano at The Forum, Norwich
    Ian’s website; Ian is also on Twitter