Lorna Fergusson

Lorna Fergusson is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. Founder of Fictionfire Literary Consultancy, she is an experienced editor, speaker and writing coach, and has taught on various Oxford University writing programmes. She originally published her novel The Chase via Bloomsbury, before republishing it through Fictionfire Press. She has won an Ian St James Award and the Historical Novel Society’s Short Story Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Pan Macmillan’s Write Now Prize, the Mogford Prize (twice) and the Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters prize. Her Historical Novel Society award-winning story ‘Salt’ appears in An Oxford Vengeance. She is developing one of the Mogford stories into a novel and is currently working on poetry, a collection of short stories and a book on mindset for writers. Born in Scotland, she is married with two sons and lives in Oxford, England.