Editor
Award-winning authorMartin Ouvry
Martin is a writer, editor, teacher and musician. He has more than twenty years’ experience as a writer, reviewer, manuscript assessor, structural editor, writing teacher, mentor, line-editor, copy-editor and proofreader.
His fiction has appeared in a range of world-renowned publications including Esquire, The London Magazine and New Writing (Picador). His article ‘How creative writing courses benefit a writer’ has been reprinted twice in the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (2023, 2024, 2025). He recently completed his novel The Cost of Loving with the generous support of Arts Council England.
Martin has received numerous prizes for his work, including first- and final-year prizes for outstanding achievement (University of East Anglia BA), the Alumni Association prize for fiction (UEA MA), a Hawthornden Fellowship, two Arts Council writer’s awards, and a Wingate Scholarship in literature.
He has taught widely, for the British Council, the Arts Council, at City University of London, UEA, Imperial College London and elsewhere.
You can find more information about Martin here.
If you’d like to work with Martin, get in touch with our Writer Support team; tell us about your book and what you’d like support with, and we’ll help you identify your next steps.
I felt encouraged
– Irene W.
Incredibly pleased
– Kristian J.
I would struggle to find a writer of comparable talent
– Lee B.
It was so easy
– Karen M.
Very encouraging
– Jeremy Gray
Contributed to the development of I Am China
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize
Following Martin’s support in rewriting and editing, Xiaolu was able to negotiate a new publishing contract. I Am China is published by Vintage (Penguin).
Martin's specialties
Why we love Martin
Martin’s sensitivity towards preserving an author’s unique voice makes him a true treasure of a line-editor. So confident in his abilities to maintain prose and reduce inconsistencies are we, that he has worked with hundreds of translated texts and is our go-to editor for even the most complex copy-editing. This is all due to his meticulous eye-for-detail and abundant love for literature. It is Martin’s vigilance and consideration during copy-edits that assure us that your work is in safe hands.
What Martin says about editing
My philosophy is simple: I love helping writers through the editorial process because I love good writing. Top-notch editing requires not only exactitude, but also a special sensitivity for the writer’s unique voice. This affinity arises both from deep literary knowledge and a ‘musical’ understanding of the individual prose fiction voice.
What Martin works on
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Post-editorial guidance
Line-editing
