Chair of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025​
 

Jean Humphreys Writer in Residence at the University of Leicester

 

Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick

Advisory Board Member, Dead Ink Books

 

Fellow of the  Royal Society of Literature

Ambassador of The Film & TV Charity

Ambassador of Listening Books

Member of The Society of Authors
 

Member of the The Black Writers' Guild

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Ambassador of Wellbeing in the Arts 

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Patron of The Bridport Prize

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Trustee of The Reading Agency 
 

Patron of Prisoners Abroad

 

Patron of Met Film School

 

Patron of Create Central