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Patricia Grace King

Patricia Grace King (2021)

Patricia Grace King grew up in the southern United States. She has since lived in Spain and in Guatemala, where she worked as an accompanier of refugees during the civil war and later as a language school director.

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Harminder Kaur (2021)

Harminder Kaur was born in the UK to Indian parents. She studied creative writing at UEA as part of her BA in Literature and Film. After an MA in Literature at Sussex, Harminder has done a wide variety of jobs, including drug and alcohol worker, chef and kitchen manager, lecturer, live-in carer, and researcher.

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Tawseef Khan

Tawseef Khan (2017)

Tawseef Khan is a solicitor and activist specialising in refugee law. He recently completed a PhD from the University of Liverpool, where his research examined the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual refugees in the UK. He adores the writing of Toni Morrison, RuPaul’s Drag Race and electronic music.

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EM Killaley

EM Killaley (2013)

Emily Owens, who writes as EM Killaley, was editor and co-founder of her undergraduate university’s Art & Literary Journal in Atlanta, Georgia. She received a New Fiction Bursary at the Northern Writers’ Awards 2013 for her novel, The Unfamiliar Land.

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Zaffar Kunial

Zaffar Kunial (2013)

Born in Birmingham, Zaffar Kunial now lives in West Yorkshire. In 2011 he was placed third in the National Poetry Competition. At the Northern Writers’ Awards 2013, he was awarded £5,000 to support him to work on his debut poetry collection.

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David Keyworth

David Keyworth (2013)

David Keyworth was awarded Salford University’s Write North-West poetry prize in 2012, and has been published in the SHOp, Smiths Knoll, and Orbis. His poetry has been included in a new anthology published by Erbacce Press. He lives in North Lincolnshire.

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Caleb Klaces

Caleb Klaces (2015)

Caleb Klaces's Bottled Air won the Melita Hume Prize for Best First Collection and an Eric Gregory Award. He has written poems, essays and stories for magazines including Poetry and The Threepenny Review.

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Jowita Krasik

Jowita Krasik (2015)

Jowita Krasik is from County Durham and was studying for her A Levels when she was nominated for the Matthew Hale Award. She is a prolific member of New Writing North’s Cuckoo Young Writers programme. With the money from the award Jowita bought a new laptop to aid her writing and spent a wonderful weekend in London seeing West End shows (which she naturally went on to review!).

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Naomi Kelsey

Naomi Kelsey (2014,2020)

Naomi is an English teacher from Newcastle currently working on a novel about Mary, Queen of Scots and the murder of Lord Darnley

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Elliott Kerrigan

Elliott Kerrigan (2005)

Elliott Kerrigan lives in Cramlington in Northumberland. He studied English and film at the University of Northumbria and then went on to study film and video production at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, where he wrote and directed a short film which featured Sir Ian McKellen. His award was to support him to develop his first collection of poetry.

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Pru Kitching

Pru Kitching (2009,2001)

Following her husband's death in 1989, Pru Kitching ran away to Copenhagen from where, as Secretary General of the International Amateur Theatre Association, she travelled extensively and wrote copiously. Her first poetry pamphlet, All Aboard the Moving Staircase, was published in 2004 by Vane Women Press. Her second, The Kraków Egg, was published by Arrowhead Press in 2008.

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Kathleen Kenny

Kathleen Kenny (2000)

Kathleen Kenny has published several poetry collections and given readings of her work in various locations, including recently at The West Cork Literary Festival. She is currently engaged with a trilogy of autobiographical novels which explore her Irish/Geordie background.

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Gibby Keys

Gibby Keys (2008)

Gibby Keys had her first writing success at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, when a collection of her poetry was performed as part of the Scottish Young Playwright’s Festival. In 2008, Gibby won the Andrea Badenoch Award for fiction for the opening chapter of her novel, The Handfastin’.

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