Amanda Mitchison

Amanda is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer who believes that fiction and nonfiction are closely allied and every type of effective writing uses story telling techniques. Originally a foreign reporter and feature writer on broadsheet newspapers, she knows the importance of clear and accurate prose. When she started writing for children and young adults she became adept at making things simple and succinct. Now she writes thrillers, where pace and inventiveness are crucial. This year she was shortlisted for the MacIlvanney Debut crime writer award.

Amanda was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of the West of England (UWE) from 2016-18 and devised instructional booklets on writing techniques for the social work, psychology, philosophy and social science student. She continues today to teach writing across the university. In 2018, Amanda started up a new RLF fellowship post in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University where she has held workshops for third year law students, for taught Masters and for PhD students. She is also an RLF advisory fellow, mentoring new RLF writing fellows.