Anna Jefferson

Anna Jefferson is Co-Director of New Writing South (NWS), the literary development agency for the South East, supporting marginalised writers. She was Relationship Manager, Theatre at Arts Council for ten years before joining NWS. Anna Co-directs Forthwrite, a creative writing organisation working with and for women writers, and delivered the first ever annual literature festival supporting women writers over 50 in March 2025. Anna is a fiction writer and playwright. She has written for stage and screen since 2005. She has published three novels, Winging It and Nailing It, both published with Orion and The List for Living, published in 2024 with Penguin Random House, Germany. She is currently writing her fourth novel.