Escalator 2011/12 winner: K.J. Packer

K.J. Packer is one of ten winners from our 2011/12 Escalator Fiction Competition, as chosen by our judges and mentors. K.J. Packer will now enjoy a year’s worth of development from professional writers.



K.J. Packer
I have held a strong passion for writing for over twenty-five years, and have pursued this love periodically throughout that time. I am interested in the theme of transience, in particular the experiences of people leading nomadic lives, or living in otherwise impermanent circumstances.

The novel I am currently writing is Ring Master, a story of family betrayal set around the Victorian travelling fairs, and focusing on the life of a female high rope walker.

When fair weather permits, I write in an old caravan on the edge of a watery meadow not far from the North Norfolk coast – and I also love swimming, cycling and barn owls.

Read K.J. Packer's extract from Ring Master.



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