Julia Forster is a writer development specialist who has worked in the publishing industry for 25 years across multiple roles, including over two years at a Soho literary agency as well as jobs at Penguin, DK, and Barefoot Books. More recently, she has worked in freelance Book PR with clients including Nine Arches Press, Little Toller and many publishers based in Wales. She co-conceived the New Welsh Writing Awards during her eight years working for New Welsh Review and sat on the Literature Wales bursaries panel for many years, helping to award grants to writers. As an author, her most recent published work was What a Way to Go (Atlantic Books, 2016) and she has also published a work of non-fiction, Muses: Revealing the Nature of Inspiration (Pocket Essentials, 2007). She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University to write a memoir, while her poetry collection is currently on submission. Julia is Co-Director of Being a Writer for The Literary Consultancy.
