This week I had the excellent privilege of attending the Historical Writers’ Association awards evening in the heart of London, an evening celebrating authors, scoffing free cheese and chugging complimentary wine. Is there anything better?
Subscribers will be aware that this year I have been one of the judges for the non-fiction prize, which you can read about on a previous post HERE. One of my fellow judges is the wonderful Annie Whitehead, queen of all things Anglo-Saxon and more.
I managed to tempt her away from the cheese and wine for a quick chat about her work, the art of writing, and whatever popped into our minds. The audio isn’t great (it was boisterous as hundreds of authors PARTIED!) but hopefully you enjoy!
Welcome, once again, to THE HISTORY SIT-DOWN! And don’t forget to buy her work! Finally, if you enjoyed, comment below and share.
Annie Whitehead
is a prize-winning writer, historian, and elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has written four award-winning novels set in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Mercia. She has contributed to fiction and nonfiction anthologies and written for various magazines.
She was the winner of the inaugural Historical Writers’ Association/Dorothy Dunnett Prize 2017 and is now a judge for that same competition. She has also been a judge for the HNS (Historical Novel Society) Short Story Competition. She has twice been a prize winner in the Mail on Sunday Novel Writing Competition, and won First Prize in the 2012 New Writer Magazine's Prose and Poetry Competition.
She has been a finalist in the Tom Howard Prize for non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the Exeter Story Prize and Trisha Ashley Award 2021. Her nonfiction books, Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom and Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England, are published by Amberley Books and Pen & Sword Books. She has recently signed a contract to contribute to a new history of English monarchs, to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2023.
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