Jenny Brown Associates

Agnes Owens is one of Scotland’s most original but often overlooked short fiction authors. She was always a writer, although for the majority of her life she was preoccupied with making a living...

Elisabeth Wolf is a writer of contemporary gothic fiction, creating classic tales that utilize the genre’s most beloved tropes – crumbling mansions, vulnerable heroines, windswept landscapes and dark, brooding antiheroes...

Katy Massey was a journalist for many years before studying for an MA and PhD in Creative Writing. Her memoir, Are We Home Yet? (Jacaranda 2020) was published in 2020 and praised by Bernardine Evaristo as ‘a gem’...

Alistair Heather is an award-winning television presenter, tour guide and writer with a passion for history. He studied History, Gaelic and French at Aberdeen before completing a Masters in Public History at the University of Dundee....

Sarah Fraser moved to Scotland over 40 years ago to marry into clan Fraser of Lovat (twice), give birth to four more Frasers and write about another one: the most notorious clan chief, Simon Fraser, Lovat of the ’45...

Originally from Devon, Amanda Block moved to Edinburgh in 2007, where she attained a master’s degree in creative writing.

Her work is often inspired by myths and fairy tales, which she uses as starting points to tell new stories...

Jonna specialises in children’s book illustration both fiction and non-fiction.

Her work is always rooted in nature, and explores the pure joy of adventure, imagination and a little bit of magic...

Jay Whittaker has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1995 and Scotland is very much home, though she grew up much further south, in Devon and Nottingham.

Jay prioritised her writing in her mid-40s after her civil partner died and she started cancer treatment.

Ajay Close’s first career in journalism gathered several awards.

As well as being a playwright, she is the author of seven novels...

Natalie Jayne Clark is a neurodivergent writer, editor and producer based in Perth.

Natalie writes for SNACK Magazine, is the Assistant Producer for...

Saskia McCracken is an author and arts worker based in Glasgow.

Her writing has been shortlisted for the 2021 Future Places Environmental Essay Prize and longlisted for...

Glennis Virgo’s novel, Vile Apparel, was the winner of the inaugural Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

Vile Apparel is a glorious world-building novel...

Julie Holden’s novel, Down Came a Blackbird, was shortlisted for the inaugural Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

Julie is originally from Staffordshire...

Gillean McDougall’s novel, The Legacy of Gabriel Thorne, was shortlisted for the inaugural Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

Applefields Asylum in 1912 is the unlikely setting...

Cressida Downing’s novel, Consider the Ravens, was shortlisted for the inaugural Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

Cressida Downing has worked in bookselling and publishing for over thirty years...

Barbara Whitfield’s novel, The Rest is Silence, was shortlisted for the inaugural Jenny Brown Associates Debut Writers Over 50 Award.

In 1939, introverted teenage Muriel Mead vanishes...

Jen Stout is a correspondent, writer and radio producer from Shetland. A former BBC Scotland journalist...

Dr Waheed Arian is an NHS doctor and global health consultant. He speaks on overcoming adversity, PTSD and mental health...

Born in the UK, Fiona McIntosh is now one of Australia’s most prolific and favourite storytellers. Her historical romantic adventures...