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NAW Interview with Kimberley Griffiths Little

Kimberley Griffiths Little

Kimberley Griffiths Little grew up in San Francisco, but now lives in an adobe house on the banks of the Rio Grande with her chaotic, messy family. She thinks she has drunk so much Land of Enchantment water that some…

NAW Interview with Allison Butler

Allison Butler spent her early years in country NSW, Australia, building pretend castles with hay bales and leaping white posts with her army of two older sisters and a younger brother. She is also a proud member of Romance Writers…

NAW Interview with Mark Chisnell

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Mark Chisnell grew up in a small town on the east coast of England. The town was dominated by the rise of the oil industry and the decline of shipbuilding and fishing. Mark has been a professional sportsman and also…

NAW Interview with Paulami Dutta Gupta

Paulami DuttaGupta

Paulami DuttaGupta was born in Shillong, India. She read English at St. Edmunds College and began her career with All India Radio Shillong. Having left her day job in 2012, Paulami took up full time writing. Her first novel, “Pinjar”…

NAW Interview with Saskya Jain

Saskya Jain

Saskya Jain grew up in New Delhi. Educated at Berlin’s Free University and at Columbia University, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she received the Florence Engel Randall Award and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her…

NAW Interview with Judith Kinghorn

Judith Kinghorn

Judith Kinghorn is a graduate in English and History of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former Woman of the Year. She lives with her family in Hampshire, England.  Judith’s debut novel The Last Summer was published…

NAW Interview with M N Krish

M N Krish

M N Krish holds a BTech degree from IIT and Masters’ degrees from MIT. He has lived in India, US and Asia and has spent a good part of his life teasing stories out of numbers to do anything from…

2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Open for Entry

Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is now Open for Entry. Its a great platform to showcase your talents and is a fantastic opportunity for writers across the Commonwealth. Plus, there is no entry fee. Writers have until 15 November 2014…

‘Where Love Lies’ (Book Excerpt) by Julie Cohen

Where Love Lies book cover

Julie Cohen studied at Brown University, earning a summa cum laude degree with honours in English. She followed it up with a postgraduate degree in English literature from the University of Reading. She has penned twenty books to date, published under…

NAW Interview with Julie Cohen

Where Love Lies

Julie Cohen studied at Brown University, earning a summa cum laude degree with honours in English. She followed it up with a postgraduate degree in English literature from the University of Reading. She has penned twenty books to date, published…