Annie Elliot

Annie Elliot has a BA (Hons) in Literary Studies and an MA in Creative Writing. She has worked in local government and as a newspaper reporter, and taught communication. She has written a booklet to help teachers understand the difficulties faced by dyslexic children. Her short stories and flash fiction have won acclaim in literary competitions and she has been longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Award. She writes and performs monologues. ​At university, her tutor, the late Fay Weldon, described Annie Elliot as a natural writer and her work as ‘completely brilliant’. Struck by her talent for the acerbic and moving, the author and screenwriter Nikesh Shukla, host of the Brown Baby podcast, complimented her on her ‘comedian’s eye for detail and absurdity’. The naturalist, author and broadcaster Stephen Moss described her bitter-sweet style as funny and tragic.