BSU celebrates 20 years of MAWFYP
Over the years, Bath Spa University’s prestigious MA in Writing for Young People (MAWFYP) has produced a myriad of outstanding authors of children’s and young adult literature. This year, the course celebrates its 20th anniversary, marking two decades of magic.
Alumni of the course include poets and picture book writers, horror addicts and real romantics, award winners and comedians, but the one thing they all have in common? An earth-shattering ability to spellbind readers with their endlessly creative endeavours.
These include (but are not limited to)...
Sally Nicholls (Ways to Live Forever)
Sam Gayton (The Snow Merchant)
Che Golden (The Feral Child)
Gill Lewis (Sky Hawk)
Rachel Carter (Ethan's Voice)
CJ Harper (The Disappeared)
Chris Vick (Kook)
Sheila Rance (Sun Catcher)
Emma Carroll (Frost Hollow Hall)
Alison Rattle (The Quietness)
Maudie Smith (Opal Moonbaby)
Mel Darbon (Rosie Loves Jack)
Lu Hersey (Sea Spinners)
Nizrana Farook (The Girl Who Stole an Elephant)
David Hofmeyr (Stone Rider)
Eugene Lambert (Sign of One)
Finbar Hawkins (Witch)
Rita Mitchell (Grandma Dangerous and the Dog of Destiny)
Fleur Hitchcock (Shrunk!)
Liz Jardine (The Detention Detectives)
Beatrice Wallbank (The Sleeping Stones)
Sophie Kirtley (The Wild Way Home)
Tracy Darnton (The Truth About Lies)
Lesley Parr (The Valley of Lost Secrets)
Alex English (Sky Pirates)
Yasmin Rahman (All the Things We Never Said)
CJ Skuse (Pretty Bad Things)
Lucy Cuthew (Blood Moon)
Wibke Brueggemann (Love is for Losers)
Dev Kothari (Bringing Back Kay Kay)
Kathryn Clark (Things I Learned While I was Dead)
Alyssa Hollingsworth (The Eleventh Trade)
Cathy Faulkner (Digging for Victory)
Nat Harrison (The Girl Who Raced the World)
Ash Bond (Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm)
Helen Comerford (The Love Interest)
Zulheka Afzal (Dancers of the Dawn)
Heather Davey (The Ghosts of Merry Hall)
OR Sorrel (Apocalypse Cow)
Clare Harlow (Tidemagic: The Many Faces of Isla Flit)
Max Boucherat (The Last Life of Lori Mills)
SF Williamson (A Language of Dragons)
Jasbinder Bilan (Asha & The Spirit Bird)
Hana Tooke (The Unadoptables)
Tia Fisher (Crossing the Line)
Jess Butterworth (Running on the Roof of the World)
Clare Furniss (The Year of the Rat)
The 2023-25 cohort would like to thank all the MAWFYP alumni for inspiring us, supporting us, and even teaching us - we wouldn’t be here without you.
Here’s to twenty more amazing years.
Discover the authors included in the latest MAWFYP anthology, Spellbound.