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Gwendoline Riley - author of First Love and My Phantoms, and one of the Times Literary Supplement’s 20 Best Living Authors - joins us to lead a three-day fiction writing masterclass.
Designed to balance supported group work with one-to-one time with Riley, the workshop offers a rare opportunity to develop your writing alongside one of our finest contemporary authors. The experience concludes with a reading and celebration of the work developed during the course, shared over supper.
The course runs at Makers’ House Hastings from 20th–22nd February 2026.
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About Gwendoline Riley -
Born in London in 1979, she is the author of My Phantoms, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize; and of First Love, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction; and of Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, and Opposed Positions. She has also won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, The Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.
Gwendoline Riley - author of First Love and My Phantoms, and one of the Times Literary Supplement’s 20 Best Living Authors - joins us to lead a three-day fiction writing masterclass.
Designed to balance supported group work with one-to-one time with Riley, the workshop offers a rare opportunity to develop your writing alongside one of our finest contemporary authors. The experience concludes with a reading and celebration of the work developed during the course, shared over supper.
The course runs at Makers’ House Hastings from 20th–22nd February 2026.
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About Gwendoline Riley -
Born in London in 1979, she is the author of My Phantoms, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize; and of First Love, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction; and of Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, and Opposed Positions. She has also won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, The Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.