Leone Ross has joined the residency team. Leone is a master at writing sex and sensuality and she will pass on her wisdom to the residency winners.

Leone Ross is a three-time novelist, short story writer and editor. Her fiction has been nominated for the Women’s Prize, the Goldsmiths award, the RSL Ondaatje award, and the Edge Hill Prize, among others. In 2022, she won the Manchester Prize for Fiction for a single short story. The Guardian has praised her ‘searing empathy’ and the Times Literary Supplement called her ‘a pointilliste, a master of detail…’ Ross has taught creative writing for 30+ years. She has been a judge in the short story category for the Bridport Prize, Mslexia magazine and the VS Pritchett Award. 

Her third novel, This One Sky Day aka Popisho was published in 2021 [Faber & Faber].  She is the editor of Glimpse: A Black British Anthology of Speculative Fiction, published in 2022 [Peepal Tree Press]. Ross is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

More information on the residency is coming soon with a little more found here.