Hosted by Dr Ashley Hickson-Lovence
Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a novelist, poet, and former secondary school English teacher and Lecturer in Creative Writing. His multi-award-winning YA verse novel Wild East was inspired in part by his experiences teaching English in secondary schools, his move from London to Norwich, tutoring asylum seekers at an Arvon retreat, and his love of British hip hop. He is also the author of three adult novels: The 392, Your Show and About To Fall Apart. His poetry collection, Why I Am Not a Bus Driver, was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize and includes the poem “Munster Road”, which was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Ashley holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia and was nominated for the Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature in 2023. His second YA verse novel, Dead Ends, will be published in February 2027.
