NAW Patrons

Over 100 professional writers, many of them household names, support the National Academy of Writing, enagaging with the student group through a regular schedule of patron visits.

A
Diran Adebayo
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
David Almond
Carole Angier
Lisa Appignanesi
Michael Arditti
Margaret Atwood
Patrick Augustus

B
Beryl Bainbridge
Iain Banks
Antony Beevor
Sujata Bhatt
Terence Blacker
Malorie Blackman
Alan Bleasdale
Rosie Boycott
William Boyd
Melvyn Bragg
Celia Brayfield
Simon Brett
Tina Brown
Elizabeth Buchan
Melvin Burgess
John Burnside
James Buxton
A S Byatt
C
Carmen Callil
Russell Celyn Jones
Jung Chang
Mavis Cheek
Kate Clanchy
Jonathan Coe
Jilly Cooper
Bernard Cornwell
Jim Crace
Richard Curtis
D
David Dabydeen
Jill Dawson
Roddy Doyle
Patricia Duncker
Helen Dunmore
E
Jan Etherington
F
Harold Evans
Helen Fielding
Ken Follett
Antonia Fraser
G
Jamila Gavin
Pam Gems
Peter Gill
John Godber
Maurice Gran
Linda Grant
Romesh Gunesekera
H
Lee Hall
Peter Hall
Christopher Hampton
David Hare
Josephine Hart
Zinnie Harris
Roy Hattersley
Peter Hennessy
Tobias Hill
Michael Holroyd
Nick Hornby
Philip Howard
Will Hutton
I
Robert Irwin
Kazuo Ishiguro
J
Amy Jenkins
Simon Jenkins
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Liane Jones
Graham Joyce
K
Jackie Kay
John Keegan
Mary Killen
Daren King
Matthew Kneale
Hanif Kureishi
L
Lynda La Plante
Doris Lessing
Andrea Levy
Penelope Lively
David Lodge
Michael Longley
M

Brian MacArthur
Laurence Marks
Andrew Marr
Deborah Moggach
Blake Morrison
Andrew Motion
Paul Muldoon

N
Andrew Neil
O
Sean O'Brien
P
Ruth Padel
Brian Patten
Allison Pearson
Alan Plater
Philip Pullman
Q R
Ian Rankin
Andrew Rawnsley
James Roose Evans
Willy Russell

S
Gitta Sereny
Jo Shapcott
Ahdaf Soueif

John Sutherland
George Szirtes

T
Stella Tillyard
Donald Trelford
Lynne Truss
Barry Turner
U
Barry Unsworth
V

 W
Minette Walters

Timberlake Wertenbaker
Jacqueline Wilson
Simon Winchester

X
Y
Nicolas Yapp
Z
Theodore Zeldin
Benjamin Zephaniah