WriteNow - Meet writer Nazneen and editor Mainga

Penguin Random House Editor Mainga was immediately gripped by 2016 WriteNow mentee Nazneen’s writing and her fictional children’s book The Strange Children of Spitalfields. We hear how Nazneen is finding the WriteNow experience and what she has learnt so far.

We want books to reflect everyone in our society, including stories which aren’t often told.

That’s why through WriteNow we want to find, mentor and publish new writers from communities under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves. This includes writers from BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) or LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer) communities, writers who have a disability, or come from a socio-economically marginalised background.