Judith Heneghan
Judith Heneghan runs the MA Creative Writing programme at Winchester. She mentors via Jericho Writers and works on her own writing.
Author Supporters
The following authors stand with ESIS in calling for 50% of all whole, taught, class novels and reading lists in schools to be authored by women, with 50% of the lead protagonists being women and girls.
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Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues.
Manjeet Mann
Manjeet Mann is a multi-award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and actress who supports ESIS because "stories shape us".
Anna Mazzola
Anna Mazzola is an award-winning writer of historical, Gothic and crime fiction. She also writes thrillers under the pen name Anna Sharpe.
Louise Morrish
Louise Morrish writes stories inspired by the lives of women in the past, who achieved extraordinary things, but whom history has forgotten.
Barney Norris
Barney Norris’s plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Remains of the Day and Second Best. His novels include Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent.
Joanne O’Connell
Joanne O’Connell is author of Beauty and the Bin and Stitched Up.
Winsome Pinnock
Winsome Pinnock is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg. Her work has been produced on the British stage and internationally since 1985.
Frances Quinn
Frances Quinn is the author of historical novels The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger.