Heading to Edinburgh International Book Festival this August? Join us at 11:45am – 12:45pm on Friday 28 August at Venue NW as we hear readings from Discoveries alumni Niamh Connolly, Georgia Moorhouse, Beena Nadeem and Tara O’Sullivan. Set to publish their debut novels in 2027 and 2028, early versions of which were recognised by Discoveries – the Women’s Prize Trust’s writer development programme and prize – the writers will be reading from their forthcoming books for the first time.

About the writers:

Niamh Connolly is an Irish writer. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia, and a BA in English and History from University College Cork. In 2024, Niamh won the Women’s Prize Discoveries Award, from almost 3,000 entries, with the opening of We Go Way Back.

Georgia Moorhouse was raised in the Midlands and moved to London to study law. Her writing has been longlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries Award. Imaginary Forces is her debut novel.

In a journalistic career of more than twenty years, Beena Nadeem’s interviewees have included a pet detective, an 84-year-old tantric sex teacher and Basil Brush (along with some politicians). These days, as a copywriter, she pens articles about exotic holidays she never goes on, and healthy supplements she never takes. She won Jericho’s Jessica George Bursary and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries Award with an early draft of her forthcoming debut, Is This What You Call Love?. Growing up in the only Asian family in her Yorkshire suburb, she now lives in (part of) a drafty church conversion in brilliantly cosmopolitan London.

Tara O’Sullivan grew up in Cornwall and now lives in south London. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter and an early partial of The Quiet Ones was longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize Discoveries Award. When she isn’t working on her own writing, Tara works as a ghostwriter and edits other people’s books as a freelance editor and proofreader.