{"id":689937,"date":"2024-04-12T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?page_id=689937"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:55:28","slug":"anna-vaught","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/creative-writing-courses\/novel-writing-mentors\/anna-vaught\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Vaught: Writing Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Your writing mentor, Anna Vaught<\/h1> <\/div>\r\n
Specialises in: Contemporary fiction, magical realism, women\u2019s fiction, historical, romance, dystopian, comic\/satire, short stories, and narrative non-fiction.<\/div>
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About Anna<\/h2>

Dr Anna Vaught is the author of ten books, including 2020\u2019s novel Saving Lucia and short fiction collection, Famished. 2023 alone saw Saving Lucia\u00a0published to national acclaim in Italy as Bang Bang Mussolini,\u00a0memoir These Envoys of Beauty and the novel The Zebra and Lord Jones, her bestselling first teaching book, The Alchemy, \u00a0plus the Curae\u00a0anthology of short prose from the winning entrants to the prize she established in 2023 for writer-carers. 2024 saw her first essay collection, To Melt the Stars and 2025 offers The Elixir. A Gentle Guide to Writing Craft,\u00a0a follow-up to The Alchemy. She is currently completing a novella and a literary self-help series as well as beginning a commercial fiction book under the name of Catherine Llewelyn. Anna’s shorter work is widely published in anthologies, literary journals, and in the national press, and she has been a columnist for The Bookseller\u00a0and Mslexia.<\/p>\n

Anna is a secondary English teacher, Creative Writing teacher and mentor, occasional university lecturer, proofreader, copywriter and editor. She was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol and was recently awarded a PhD by Published Works at York St John University; her topic was Magical Realism and Trauma, foregrounding her own work.<\/p>\n

Anna works alongside chronic illness and is a passionate campaigner for mental health provision and SEND support for young people. She is very keen to support access to writing and publication for unpaid carers and disabled and chronically ill writers, and is informed by her wide teaching background, training, and lived experience.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n