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.
Melissa Fu
Melissa Fu is a writer based near Cambridge, UK. Originally from Northern New Mexico, she studied Physics and English at Rice University and later earned advanced degrees in both fields. A former teacher and curriculum developer, her writing has appeared in The Lonely Crowd, Wasafiri Online, The Willowherb Review, and more. She was a 2018/2019 David TK Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia and received an Arts Council England grant to support her work.
Her first novel, Peach Blossom Spring, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick and a 2022 Indies Introduce title. It has been translated into multiple languages, with more editions on the way.
Melissa teaches our beginners’ fiction course.
Read Melissa’s advice for five things you should remember when ‘setting’ the setting →
Benjamin Johncock
Benjamin Johncock is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and journalist. His debut novel, The Last Pilot, was published in the U.S. and U.K. to widespread critical acclaim. It won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book of the Year, selected for Brave New Reads, and was one of The Observer’s Hidden Gems of 2016. His award-winning short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk, The Junket, Comma Press and Storgy. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Spectator, and many others, and he has worked as an editor and copywriter. He’s on the editorial board of The Letters Page, a literary journal edited by Jon McGregor at the University of Nottingham, and for two years was a mentor for the National Centre for Writing’s Escalator writing programme. He is also a recipient of two Arts Council England grants. He lives in Norwich with his wife, his daughter, and his son.
Benjamin teaches our beginners’ fiction course.
Read Benjamin’s top tips for submitting your writing to publications and competitions →
Molly Naylor
Molly Naylor is an award-winning poet, scriptwriter, and graphic novelist. She is the co-writer and creator of Sky One comedy After Hours. Her plays have been toured nationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her third poetry collection Whatever You’ve Got is published by Bad Betty Press. She hosts the creativity podcast Making Trouble with Molly Naylor. Her debut novel will be published in 2026.
Image © Anita Staff
Molly teaches our beginners’ scriptwriting course.
Keiron Pim
Keiron Pim is the author of two acclaimed biographies: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta, 2022) and Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld (Cape, 2016). Both were named The Times Books of the Year, with Endless Flight receiving international praise from The New York Times, Guardian, FT, and more.
A former journalist with 25 years’ experience, Keiron has written for publications including the Guardian, Telegraph, Spectator, and London Review of Books. He lives in north Norfolk with his wife and three daughters and is currently working on a creative non-fiction book about London’s East End in the 1970s.
Keiron teaches our beginners’ creative non-fiction course.
Rachel Hore
Rachel Hore is the Sunday Times bestselling author of thirteen novels, including A Place of Secrets, Last Letter Home and A Beautiful Spy. Her stories, often set in Norfolk, Suffolk, and richly historical landscapes, have sold over a million copies and been translated around the world.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Rachel worked in publishing as a senior fiction editor at HarperCollins. She began writing after moving to Norwich in 2001, and later taught Publishing and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
She lives in Norwich with her husband, writer D.J. Taylor, and their labrador, Zelda. Her latest novel, The Hidden Years, is out now in paperback, and The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge was published in July 2025. Image © Charlotte Murphy
Rachel teaches our beginners’ romantic fiction course.
See Rachel’s recommendations for her favourite romantic fiction novels →
Imogen Hermes Gowar
Imogen Hermes Gowar is the author of the bestselling novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, which won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Sunday Times Young Writer Award. She’s published a variety of short fiction as well as an augmented reality walking tour of medieval Norwich, Eleanor.
She’s particularly interested in how we write the past, and the dazzling variety of form and style that exists within the genre of historical fiction. Imogen has taught creative writing for Arvon, The Literary Consultancy, and The Novelry, among many others. Image © Jamie Barrs
Imogen teaches our beginners’ historical fiction course.
Matt Gaw
Matt Gaw is a writer, journalist and secondary school English teacher, who lives in Suffolk. He is the author of the acclaimed The Pull of the River: A Journey into the Wild and Watery Heart of Britain and Under the Stars: A Journey into Light.
Matt’s most recent book, In All Weathers, is a lyrical and personal exploration of rain, fog, wind, ice and snow (and everything in between). His nature writing and journalism has been published in, among others, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times and Countryfile magazine.
Matt teaches our nature writing course.
Dan Richards
Dan Richards is a writer and journalist who specialises in travel, memoir, and culture. His first book, Holloway, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. Overnight – an exploration of nocturnal operations which replenish, repair and protect the world whilst most of us are asleep – was published in 2024. He has written for newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, Economist, Monocle, and Telegraph.
Dan has taught at Bristol University, and currently tutors at NCW Academy, Moniack Mhor, and Arvon Foundation. He is an established chair and speaker at Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hay-on-Wye, and many others around the UK. Image © Owen Richards
Dan teaches our intermediate creative non-fiction course.
Listen to Dan discuss the process of researching and writing creative non-fiction on our podcast →
Amy Key
Amy Key is the author of the memoir Arrangements in Blue (Jonathan Cape, 2023), chosen as a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times, Independent, Irish Times and Granta and shortlisted by Foyles for their Non Fiction Book of the Year 2023. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe (Salt, 2013) and Isn’t Forever (Bloodaxe, 2018). Her essays have appeared in the collections At The Pond (2019) and By the River (2024) published by Daunt, as well as Granta, Vogue, The Observer, The Poetry, Independent and elsewhere. Her Substack is So Glad I’m Me.
Amy is teaching our intermediate memoir course.
See Amy Key’s recommendations for books that will be a friend in hard times →
