Manni Coe - Sunday Times best-selling author of brother. do. you. love. me.

How do you shape a gripping narrative from your lived experience? Where to begin and how do you make a personal story universal?

Manni Coe grew up in Yorkshire and Berkshire and studied Latin American History & Culture at Edinburgh University. He worked as a guide in South America for several years before finally settling in Andalucia, Spain where he lives with his partner and younger brother. His first memoir, the Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month, brother. do. you. love. me was co-created with his brother Reuben during the Covid pandemic. His second, Little Ruins: Rebuilding a Life was published by Canongate in August 2025.

Kate Armstrong is an ex-management consultant and amateur mountaineer. She is endlessly fascinated by what it is to be in high places – with all their beauty, physical hardship, danger, joy, and promise of achievement. Her perspective on that has deepened as she has faced mountain tragedy, mental illness and cataclysmic grief, ultimately coming through wiser. She holds a Creative Writing MFA from Birkbeck and won runner up in the Bridport Memoir Award 2025. Her memoir is forthcoming from Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House) in January 2027, with the exciting new title: I Am Here: On Staying Alive. She writes a Substack called 'Exposure - A Journey in Publishing Memoir'.

Siobhan Harvey is a queer, migrant author of nine books including the recently published memoir, What We Remember, What We Forget (OUP 2026) which was a category winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US), highly commended in 2024 Bridport Memoir Award (UK) and won 2023 Landfall Essay Prize (NZ). Presently, she's shortlisted for the Heroine Women's Writing Prize (Aus). She's been the recipient of 2021 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, 2020 NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, 2018 Robert Burns Poetry Prize and 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award.

Run by international creative writing competition The Bridport Prize. Previous winners include Kate Atkinson and Kit de Waal. Discover more at www.bridportprize.org.uk

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