Our online tutored courses are designed and delivered by award-winning tutors and industry experts. All are published writers, and many have studied or taught at the University of East Anglia.
Meet the tutors who are here to guide, support and encourage you to produce your best work.
Yan Ge
Yan Ge is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English, and is the author of fourteen books in Chinese, including six novels. She has received numerous awards and was named by People’s Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, including English, French and German. The latest English translation of her novel, Strange Beasts of China, was one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2021.
Yan’s English writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Irish Times, TLS, Granta, the Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia where she was the recipient of the UEA International Award 2018/19. Her English language debut short story collection Elsewhere was published by Faber in the UK and Scribner in the USA in summer 2023 and was named a New Yorker book of the year.
Yan is teaching our How to Write Fiction course in May.
Read Yan Ge’s recommendations for five books for short story writers →
Dr Breeze Barrington
Dr Breeze Barrington is a writer and cultural historian specialising in women’s history and stories. Her first book, The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court, was published by Bloomsbury in July 2025. Breeze is a Bye-Fellow at the University of Cambridge, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has previously taught Biography/Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia, as well as courses in seventeenth century literature and culture at Queen Mary, University of London.
As an arts writer and critic, Breeze has written for the Financial Times, the TLS, Apollo Magazine, The Art Newspaper, CNN Style, Art UK, and BBC History Magazine, and has appeared on podcasts including BBC History Extra, the TLS Podcast, Not Just the Tudors, Talking Tudors, and the Colnaghi Foundation. She has also worked as a script consultant for Working Title and Monumental Pictures.
Breeze is teaching our Writing the Past course in June.
Read Breeze Barrington’s tips on how to evoke the past in your writing →
Santanu Bhattacharya
Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of two novels, One Small Voice and Deviants, and several works of short fiction.
One Small Voice was an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023, and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Deviants won the Rainbow Award and BLF-Atta Galata Prize 2025, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Santanu is the recipient of the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and a London Writers’ Award.
He grew up in India, and now lives in London.
Santanu is leading our How to Edit a Novel course in June.
