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Continue reading →: Looking Forward, Back + UpCaption: me (R) with Richard Benson (L) at the ‘North East Now’ panel, Durham Book Festival 2024.Image credit: New Writing North. Since I discovered that January takes its name from the two-faced Roman deity ‘Janus’, the start of a new year has been less about setting goals, and more about…
Award-winning author & playwright
Louise Powell is the author of UNDERDOGS, a literary fiction novel to be published by the JM Originals imprint of John Murray Press on 2nd July 2026.
She is an award-winning working-class writer and socially-engaged practitioner who works across forms, including prose, plays, podcasts, poetry, creative non-fiction and research projects. She has experience in public speaking, creative writing facilitation, and project management.
A domestically and internationally published scholar, she has a PhD in English from Sheffield Hallam University and has held a Greyhound Board of Great Britain Professional Greyhound Trainer’s Licence.
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