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Excellent teaching and mentorship

My favourite part of the degree was the excellent teaching and mentorship I received from the teaching staff. There was really good feedback on work, robust teaching of the craft of writing, critical reading, and self-examination of practice, and lively and interesting talks and exercises. 

I also really enjoyed the workshop element and working with my peers, many of whom I am still in contact with and share writing with. I enjoyed the mixed discipline element too, studying alongside poets and life writers.

Advice for future students

Enthusiasm for the subject helps tremendously. Based on my experience on the MA, I would also say that when it comes to postgraduate education, students and teachers with a variety of life experiences contribute to a lively and interesting atmosphere, helping to produce accomplished writers, so I would advise people to see everything they have done before the MA as an asset.

Life after Goldsmiths

My debut novel, , is due to be published in April in UK, US and Canada by Oneworld, Feminist Press and Knopf (PRH) respectively. As a result of these deals, I was able to spend a large part of 2024 working as an author.

I also now work as a librarian in a primary school, running the library and teaching literacy classes to children between the ages of 6 and 11. I really enjoy working with students and giving them the tools to access literature they enjoy. I do a bit of creative writing with them too.

A Line You Have Traced

I produced most of the first draft of my debut novel while at Goldsmiths:

In a silverware shop, a young wife works alongside her husband. Amid growing political turmoil, Bea finds solace in the local marsh, where she is visited recurrently by a mysterious presence, logging each appearance carefully in a scarlet journal.

Publisher blurb:

In a time like now, Kay navigates friendship, queerness and the temporary job market, whilst contemplating the significance of her life in a world with such an uncertain future. At her grandmother’s house she finds an intriguing record of an angel’s visits.

A hundred years into the future, outsiders have banded together to live off-grid away from a corrupt government and a city wracked by oppression and climate change. When Ess is chosen for a virgin mission, a journey into the past to save the present, she is guided only by a well-thumbed red notebook…

Set against the shifting landscape of East Â鶹¹ÙÍø marshes and expanding over three centuries, this is the breathtaking, urgent story of three women separated by history but threaded together by unknown forces.