Authors Teenagers

  • Bryony Pearce - Raising Hell

    Bryony Pearce - Raising Hell

    Bryony Pearce's new book Raising Hell (UcLan Publishing) is a darkly funny horror story about teenagers wh accidentally invite the 'dark side' into their lives.  Bryony always dreamed of being a writer. After leaving university, she temped while waiting for a job in publishing, but then found...

  • Ben Bailey Smith

    Ben Bailey Smith

    Ben Bailey Smith - who has written his first novel for children, Something I Said - began his career as a rapper known as Doc Brown before diversifying and moving into mainstream TV and film acting, stand-up comedy, screenwriting and children's books (I Am Bear...

  • Jenni Spangler

    Jenni Spangler

    Jenni Spangler writes children's books with a magical twist and her new book, The Incredible Talking Machine, has plenty of mystery and unexpected twists. Jenni was elected for the first year of the 'Write Mentor' scheme and lives in Staffordshire with her husband and two children.  She...

  • Jason Cockcroft

    Jason Cockcroft

    Jason Cockcroft was born in New Zealand and raised in Leeds, West  Yorkshire. He graduated from Falmouth School of Art and is the illustrator and author of over 40 books for children, including the illustrated covers for the last three books in the Harry Potter series. Jason won the inaugural...

  • Nicola Skinner

    Nicola Skinner

    Nicola Skinner worked as a copywriter and journalist for the likes of the Guardian and the Pool before being inspired to write Bloom, her first book for children, followed by Storm and Starboard (HarperCollins Children's Books). She lives in Bristol with her family.  

  • Julia Golding

    Julia Golding

    Julia Golding grew up on the edge of Epping Forest. After reading English at Cambridge, she joined the Foreign Office and served in Poland.  Her work as a diplomat took her from the high point of town twinning in the Tatra Mountains to the low of inspecting the bottom of a Silesian coal mine.<...

  • Jewell Parker Rhodes

    Jewell Parker Rhodes

    Jewell Parker Rhodes grew up in Pennsylvania. She is an author of adult and children's books, a Coretta Scott King Honour award-winner, and a professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. She currently lives in San Jose in the US.

  • Helen Harvey

    Helen Harvey

    Helen grew up in a wild and unruly corner of the internet, where she dodged flames, crafted websites and led a guild of magical wolf-tamers. From a young age she realised that technology gave children superpowers. Besides writing, Helen has had many jobs including building jousting aren...