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HWA / DDS Short Story Competition – Winner, Highly Commended and Shortlist
Thank you so much to all our readers and judges, and to everyone who submitted. It was a fantastic year. Winner . Collapse ~ Chrissy Sturt An immediately engrossing tale of a family in Southampton in 1940. A great sense of place and character and... more
HWA Crowns Longlists Announced
The HWA Crown longlists were announced on 28 September, and what an amazing collection of debuts, novels, and nonfiction historical writing our judges have put together. Shortlists will be announced on 25 October via our twitter account... more
HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Short Story – Longlist Announced
Huge congratulations to all the longlisted writers – 2022 has proved another really strong year for the HWA DDS Short Story Competition with stories which took us from Homeric times to the 1980s. All of the stories long listed are fresh,... moreauthor showcase
Wylie Small
Welcome to my author page! My debut novel, A Knight's Duty, was published in April 2022 by London-based Sharpe Books. A Knight's Duty is based on the life of 14th century Northumberland knight Thomas Gray, who fought in the First War of Scottish Independence and whose exploits are chronicled in his son's treatise on English history, Scalacronica. My second novel, The Failed Apprentice, was published in December 2022, also by Sharpe Books... more
Louise Morrish
Louise Morrish is a Librarian, and currently works part-time managing a secondary school library in Hampshire. She writes historical fiction inspired by the lives of real women in the past whose stories have been forgotten. Her debut novel, OPERATION MOONLIGHT, won the Penguin Random House First Novel Competition, and was published by Century in July 2022. She lives in Hampshire with her family. In her spare time she loves to trail run,... more
Hazel Gaynor
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail, and Irish Times bestselling historical novelist. Her debut THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME was awarded the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year, and her novels have since been shortlisted for the 2016 and 2020 Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year, the 2019 Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award, and the 2021 Grand Prix du Roman Historique. Her last... more
Eleanor Swift-Hook
Eleanor Swift-Hook enjoys the mysteries of history and fell in love with the early Stuart era at university when she re-enacted battles and living history events with the English Civil War Society. Since then, she has had an ongoing fascination with the social, military and political events that unfolded during the Thirty Years’ War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. She lives in County Durham and loves writing stories woven into the... more
