Louise Sharland

Louise moved the UK from her native Canada nearly thirty years ago after falling in love with a British sailor. She began writing short stories when her children were little and her work has appeared in magazines, anthologies and online. In 2010 she won the Woman and Home Short Story Competition and her entry Black Rock, subsequently appeared in an anthology, The Best Little Book Club in Town (Orion 2011), alongside writers such as Lee Child, Ruth Rendell and JoJo Moyes. In 2019 Louise won The Big Issue Crime Writing competition.