WriteBack: An Evening of Writers Off Duty

Her first poetry collection Kingdomland (2019) was a Poetry Society Book Choice. She was the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award and an Eric Gregory Award. She is also the author of God Complex, published by Faber, and she currently works as an editor and lecturer in London.

Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, whose books include the global bestsellers, This Book Is Gay and Clean, and The Sunday Times bestselling Series Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. She Won The 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. She also writes for television and her journalism has been featured as a columnist for Attitude, in Glamour, The Pool, Dazed and the Guardian. She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC Women’s Hour, Front Row, ITV News, Channel 5 News, This Morning and Newsnight. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared in the BBC’s I May Destroy You and Holby City.

His first novel, That Reminds Me, the first work of fiction to be published by Stormzy’s Merky Books imprint, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, Losing the Plot, was published in 2022 and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Jhalak Prize. In 2023 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His latest, Borderline Fiction, is published by Canongate.

Her latest collection The Illustrated Woman (Chatto & Windus, 2022) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize in Banff, Canada. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.