Meet Our Chairs

Jenny Brown established her agency in 2002. She was shortlisted in 2014 and 2020 for Agent of the Year at the British Book awards and is former Chair of the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival. She represents 50 writers and likes to work closely with her writers, almost all of whom are based in Scotland. Bryan Burnett is the host of BBC Radio Scotland’s popular evening music programme, Get It On Aberdeen born Bryan began his career as a teenage magazine journalist before moving into radio and TV presenting. He has presented a wide range of shows over the years from arts and entertainment to quiz shows. Alex Clark is a critic, journalist and broadcaster. A co-host of Graham Norton’s Book Club, she is also a regular on Radio 4 and writes on a wide range of subjects for the Guardian, the Observer, the Irish Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a patron of the Cambridge Literary Festival, and has judged many literary awards. Dr Jacky Collins aka Dr Noir, formerly Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University in Literature, Film & TV and Spanish Language & Culture, is currently based at Stirling University. In 2014 Jacky established the International Crime Fiction Festival that is Newcastle Noir. Katie Goh is a writer, editor and critic based in Edinburgh. She covers culture for publications like i-D, Huck, VICE and the Guardian and is Intersections Editor at The Skinny. In 2019, Katie was shortlisted for PPA Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year award and, in 2021, shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize. Peggy Hughes is Head of Programmes at the National Centre for Writing, a literature house dedicated to the exploration and celebration of the artform of writing based in Norwich. Previously, she worked in various literature organisations in Scotland. She is also on the board for the publishers 404Ink and the charity Open Book Reading.

Kate London joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 2006. She finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on the Metropolitan Police Service’s Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in 2014 to write full time. Sally Magnusson is a writer and broadcaster. She began her career at The Scotsman before moving to the BBC, notably as a long-serving presenter of BBC Scotland’s Reporting Scotland news programme. Her memoir of her mother’s dementia, Where Memories Go, won her the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing in 2014. Fiona Stalker is a senior radio and tv presenter and journalist at BBC Scotland. The Aberdonian presents programmes including DriveTime & The Sunday Show on BBC Radio Scotland and Seven Days on the BBC Scotland channel. Theresa Talbot is an author, radio broadcaster, podcaster and gardener.Best known as the voice of traffic and travel for BBC Radio Scotland, and host ofthe Tartan Noir podcast. In a broadcasting career spanning 25 years, she’s covered The Dunblane Tragedy, the death of Princess Diana and the case of Harold Shipman among others. Katalina Watt (she/they) was Longlisted for Penguin Write Now 2020 and received a 2021 Writers Grant from Ladies of Horror Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in various magazines and anthologies including Haunted Voices, Unspeakable, and Extra Teeth.