Liane Wimhurst

Liane Wimhurst is a former foreign correspondent turned fiction writer living in Hackney. She is one of the 2026 London Writers Awardees in the literary fiction category. Her short fiction has been published in Prism International in Canada and she is working on a feminist body horror collection. She received an Arts Council grant and mentorship as she wrote the first draft of her novel. Ya’ani (Meaning) follows May, a war reporter living in Bethlehem in 2007, and her friendship with her translator, Saad, a Hamas-voting local who sees no other way out of a territorial deadlock. Her writing is political, intimate and finds humour in the darkest of places. She also has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths.