Courttia Newland

Courttia Newland is the author of nine books including his debut, The Scholar and Cosmogramma. His work has appeared in many anthologies and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Newland is the co-editor of the seminal IC3 The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, spanning poetry, to short fiction, memoir and essays. As a screenwriter he has co-written for the BBC series Small Axe and The Woman in the Wall. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Kingston University, and his latest novel, A River Called Time, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year in 2022.