Tom Newlands

Tom Newlands is a Scottish writer based in London. His short work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, the New Statesman and the BBC Radio production Margins to Mainstream. He has also written for UnHerd. His debut novel, Only Here, Only Now, was published in 2024 by Phoenix Books. It follows Cora Mowat, a teenage girl growing up on a council estate in 1990s Fife. He has won the London Writer's Award for Literary Fiction, a Creative Future Writer's Award and New Writing North's A Writing Chance.