ESIS Supporters

Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues.

Manjeet Mann is a multi-award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and actress who supports ESIS because "stories shape us".

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 writes stories inspired by the lives of women in the past, who achieved extraordinary things, but whom history has forgotten.

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 is author of Beauty and the Bin and Stitched Up.

Winsome Pinnock is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg. Her work has been produced on the British stage and internationally since 1985.

Frances Quinn is the author of historical novels The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger.

Louisa Reid is a writer of Young Adult novels, a teacher of English, and a passionate supporter of End Sexism in Schools.