WriteBack: An Evening of Writers Off Duty

Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023) and the short story collection She’s Always Hungry (2024). In 2020 Boy Parts was Blackwells Fiction Book of the Year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women’s Prize Future Award for writers under 35. She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. She also writes for film and television. A stage adaptation of Boy Parts premiered at Soho Theatre in October 2023.

Musa Okwonga is an award-winning author whose work explores culture, politics and society. He studied law at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has written eight books. The co-host of the Stadio football podcast, his recent publications include One of Them: An Eton College Memoir (2021), In The End, It Was All About Love (2021), and Striking Out (co-authored with Ian Wright), (2021), winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Children’s Sports Book of the Year Award. He lives in Berlin.

Olivia Sudjic was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her debut novel, Sympathy was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award and Collyer Bristow Prize in 2017. Exposure — a personal exploration of art, feminism and anxiety in the digital age — was named an Irish Times and White Review Book of the Year for 2018. Her second novel, Asylum Road, was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize in 2021.

Helen Mort writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. 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.

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