Past Winners

Christopher Fallow (2019)

Kit Fan (2018)

Kit Fan was born in Hong Kong and moved to the UK at the age of 21. He studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before completing a doctoral thesis on Thom Gunn at the University of York. As well as being a published poet, he also writes fiction. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize for ‘Duty Free’ and the TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prize.

Andrew Fentham (2013)

Andrew Fentham has been published in English and translation in various magazines and poetry anthologies in the UK, Ireland, and France. Born in Birmingham, he now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Deborah Finn (2014)

Deborah grew up in Merseyside. Amongst other things, she has worked as an EFL teacher, a barmaid, a fish and chip shop assistant, a commercial artist, and latterly as a psychologist. She enjoys psychological suspense, and is currently at the rewrite stage with her first novel, an excerpt of which won the Andrea Badenoch Award.

Charlotte Fairbairn (2015)

Novelist, feature writer, all-round jobbing wordsmith, sometime equestrienne, bird-fan, music-fan and mother.

Karen Featherstone (2015)

Karen Featherstone is a screenwriter and playwright who has written storylines for Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Her work has been featured at the National Theatre Studio and broadcast by Channel 4.

Martin Feekins (2015)

Martin Feekins lives in North Yorkshire. His short stories and comic scripts have been published in professional and small press anthologies. He has also scripted a short film, had his work broadcast on radio and written several novel-length works. Currently, he is developing a new novel.

Andrew Forster (2014)

Andrew Forster from Grange Over Sands in Cumbria has won £3000 to buy a sabbatical from his job at the Wordsworth Trust to give him time to write his third collection. Flambard Press have published his first two collections, Fear of Thunder and Territory.

Addy Farmer (2014)

Addy is a children's author who lives near Scunthorpe. She works in and out of schools as a patron of reading and a writing workshop wiz. She blogs, is a co-ordinator for the SCBWI, cycles, makes films, fences epee and has a very understanding family. And of course, she writes.

Linda France (2012)

Linda France's poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club, a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She has worked on a number of collaborations with visual artists and musicians and around 40 public art projects. Linda is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at Moorbank Botanic Garden, University of Newcastle.

Sue Frost (2005)

Sue was a journalist and novelist living and working in Whitley Bay. Her award was to support her to develop her novel in progress, Salt, a departure from her previous work in both style and content which sadly remained unfinished at her death in 2011.

Charles Fernyhough (2001)

Charles Fernyhough is a writer and psychologist. His non-fiction book, The Baby in the Mirror, has been translated into seven languages. His book on autobiographical memory, Pieces of Light, is published by Profile Books in the UK (forthcoming from HarperCollins USA, March 2013). He is the author of two novels, The Auctioneer and A Box of Birds.

Kitty Fitzgerald (2003)

Kitty Fitzgerald is the author of four novels, most recently Pigtopia, which was shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award 2006. Her theatre work has been performed in eight productions for a variety of companies, including Cloud Nine Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Northern Stage, Live Theatre, Quondam Theatre and Durham Theatre Co. She has also had four dramas produced by BBC Radio 4.

Kate Fox (2006)

Kate Fox is a poet and performer. She’s been a regular on Radio 4’s Saturday Live since 2007 and her poems have appeared on many radio shows including Radio 4’s The Today Programme, The Wondermentalist Cabaret and Poetry Pop Up. Her novel A Portrait of an Autist as a Young Woman was shortlisted in Mslexia’s novel competition in 2012 and is represented by Robert Kirby at United Agents. Her first full-length poetry collection is published by Smokestack in February 2013.

Sophie F Baker (2010)

Sophie F Baker is a poet based in Gateshead who is inspired by the indefatigably poetic nature of ordinariness. In 2010 she was awarded the Andrew Waterhouse Award by New Writing North for her poetry, and in 2012 was a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed her work at events and festivals around the country.