Sharon Duggal

Subject Leader, Creative Writing and Publishing

Sharon Duggal writes novels and short stories. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (2020, Bluemoose Books) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2021 Encore Award, selected for Between the Covers, BBC television’s flagship book show and chosen as a Prima Magazine Book of the Year. Her debut, The Handsworth Times was The Morning Star’s Fiction Book of the Year 2016 and selected as the Brighton City Reads Big Read in 2017. Her short fiction appears in anthologies on and offline including The Book of Birmingham, Visual Verse, and Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks. Sharon has recently completed her third novel and is now planning a fourth.

Sharon has an MPhil in Creative Writing (University of Sussex) and has taught writing in a range of community and academic settings and for organisations including the Arvon Foundation, New Writing South,  New Writing North, Jericho Writers, Spread the Word and others. She is a current Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Fellow.

Alongside writing, Sharon is also one half of the Ruben and Sharon Show, the UK’s only regular radio show with a mum and son presenter team, playing out on Radio Reverb, where she now also sits on the board as an Associate Director.