Meet the World: Writing the Family

Iqbal Hussain’s writing often centres on families, home and relationships. His short stories have been published in anthologies and online journals, including The Hopper and The Willowherb Review. His debut adult novel, Northern Boy (Unbound Firsts, 2024), is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story inspired by his childhood in 1980s Lancashire. His forthcoming children’s novel, The Night I Borrowed Time (Puffin, 2026), follows the time-travelling misadventures of a seventh son determined to save his parents’ marriage. Iqbal lives in London.

Melanie Lee is the author of the award-winning graphic novel series Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma and the picture book series The Adventures of Squirky the Alien. She is also a part-time lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, where she develops and teaches communication and children’s literature courses.

Yin F Lim is a writer and editor who lives in Norwich. A former journalist, she now writes creative non-fiction around the themes of family, food and migration. Yin’s work is published in anthologies including Who We Are We Now? A Collection of True Stories About Brexit and A Personal History of Home with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, as well as literary journals Moxy, The Other Side of Hope, Porridge and Ruby. She is currently an associate editor of Hinterland, a Norwich-based magazine for creative non-fiction. Yin holds a Biography and Creative Non-Fiction MA from the University of East Anglia. She won the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2025 for her current work-in-progress – a family memoir about her maternal grandmother’s emigration from South China to Malaya in the early 20th century.