Author Academy Tutors
The HarperCollins Author Academy tutors will deliver teaching over a mix of live webinars and online streaming content, and hope to soon provide face-to-face instruction. The Academy delivers high-quality instruction in creative writing, covering adult fiction, nonfiction, and writing for children, taught by industry professionals.
Gale Winskill
Writing Fiction
Gale Winskill is an editor at Winskill Editorial with over 25 years of experience in the UK and abroad. She has worked with traditionally published and self-published authors, both in-house and, since 2008, as a freelancer. Her writers have won or been shortlisted for various prizes, including The Best Indie Book Awards (Horror), The Next Generation Indie Book Awards (First Novel), The Scottish Children’s Book Awards, and the Kelpies Prize.
An Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Gale has been involved with the creation and delivery of training courses and workshops for the CIEP and other publishing bodies. She describes her editing approach as that of an uber-critical reader, never losing sight of the fundamental fact that a writer’s objective is to make a connection with their audience and the editor’s role is to enable the author to achieve that by means of constructive advice, collaboration and a good sense of humour. When she’s not reading, Gale can be found playing tennis or gardening according to the principle of benevolent neglect.
Liz Marvin
Writing Nonfiction
Liz Marvin is an editor with over twelve years’ of experience in nonfiction. She spent eight years as an editor at Penguin Random House, where she worked with authors such as Caitlin Moran, Danny Wallace and Rick Stein. Since going freelance, she has edited books by a wide variety of authors, including Fearne Cotton, Claudia Winkleman, the Secret Barrister, James O’Brien, Alexandra Wilson, Reggie Yates and Stacey Dooley. Her publishing clients include HarperCollins, Orion, Simon and Schuster, Bloomsbury, Bonnier and Pan Macmillan, among others.
Liz specializes in structural and project editing, helping authors to shape their stories and communicate effectively with their audience. She particularly enjoys working with first-time authors, guiding them through the publishing process, giving editorial feedback, and generally assisting them to make their book the very best it can be.
She has written a number of books and curated quotation collections, mainly within the gift and humour genre, on topics as various as Virginia Woolf, CBD oil, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She always enjoys the wide variety of subjects that her job brings her way!
Anna Wilson
Writing for ChildrenAnna Wilson read Modern Languages at Cambridge University. She has been an editor for Macmillan, HarperCollins, Puffin, and Bloomsbury. Anna has written over 60 books for children of all ages. Her latest is a non-fiction title, A Story of the Seasons (Nosy Crow and the National Trust). Her picture book Grandpa and the Kingfisher (Nosy Crow) was shortlisted for the 2023 Wainwright Nature Prize. She wrote the novelisations for the second and third Paddington movies (HarperCollins). Her memoir for adult readers: A Place for Everything – My Mother, Autism and Me (HQ, HarperCollins) was reviewed as “a seminal work in this area” by the world expert in autism in women, Professor Tony Attwood. As well as writing, Anna has extensive experience in teaching creative writing. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, an Arvon tutor, and a coach for the London Writers’ Salon.”