Rose Tomaszewska

Fiction Development, Novel

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Rose Tomaszewska is Editorial Director at Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage at Penguin Random House, publishing fiction and non-fiction. Previously she worked at Virago and riverrun, the literary imprint of Quercus. Authors she's published have won or been shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the Orwell Prize, the Women's Prize, the Bailie Gifford Prize. She runs workshops for Faber Academy, Arvon and various universities, festivals and in prisons, and mentors young people in publishing. Having graduated from UEA, she now lives in Brighton.

Her teaching style is hands-on, imaginative and interactive, valuing exercises over lecturing and encouraging students to collaborate and develop new skills - with a lot of positivity and laughter along the way.