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Ely Percy is a Scottish fiction writer, a memoirist and an epistolarian. Their first work Cracked: Recovering From Traumatic Brain Injury (JKP, 2002) took the form of both a creative and an academic text; they graduated with distinction from Glasgow University’s Mphil in Creative Writing in 2004, and since then their work has appeared in many reputable literary journals (e.g. The Edinburgh Review, The Scotsman + Orange Short Story Award, New Writing Scotland, Causeway). Over the last fifteen years, Percy has facilitated countless writing workshops for various minority groups; they’ve been writer-in-residence in a prison, they’ve edited a lesbian publication, they’ve worked as a community librarian in an LGBT centre. Their debut novel Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz was published on 15th March 2019 by Knight Errant Press.
People experiencing mental health problems; Prisoners & young offenders; Reluctant readers; Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts)
Topics of work
Adolescence; Biography & memoir; Class & society; Comedy, humour & funny books; Crime fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Discrimination & prejudice; Family; Friendship; Health including mental health & wellbeing; Historical fiction; LGBTQIA+ characters; Loneliness & isolation; Love & romance; Performance training