Winsome Pinnock
Winsome Pinnock is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg. Her work has been produced on the British stage and internationally since 1985.
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.
Frances Quinn
Frances Quinn is the author of historical novels The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger.
Louisa Reid
Louisa Reid is a writer of Young Adult novels, a teacher of English, and a passionate supporter of End Sexism in Schools.
Onjali Raúf
Onjali Raúf is an award winning children’s author and activist. Her debut book is the critically acclaimed The Boy at the Back of the Class.
Amy Twigg
Amy Twigg's debut novel Spoilt Creatures won the BPA Pitch Prize and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award.
Roz Watkins
Roz Watkins is the author of the DI Meg Dalton crime series and the standalone thriller 'The Red House'.
Mark West
Mark West's published work includes over one hundred short stories, two collections, two novels, a novelette, a chapbook and four novellas.
Dr Rachael Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill
In Parenthesis was founded by Dr Rachael Wiseman & Clare Mac Cumhaill in 2015. Since 2023 it has been directed by an international board.