Meet the writers, thinkers, narrators and creative collaborators whose imagination gives every Hawkins & Wells publication its unmistakable life.
We work with creators who see the world distinctly and understand the readers they hope to reach. Each collaboration begins with the work itself—its voice, emotional truth, creative ambition and potential to live meaningfully across formats and borders.
Meet an international group of storytellers, thinkers and makers working across fiction, ideas, poetry, translation, audio and practical reading.
01Ema Voss writes intimate speculative fiction about memory, ownership and the quiet systems that shape a life. Her precisely imagined worlds are always anchored by emotionally close characters facing choices that feel both impossible and deeply human. She is especially interested in what people preserve, what institutions erase and what it costs to reclaim a story.
02Mike Lynch explores the human side of technology, work and public life. His clear, generous essays resist easy certainty and give readers better questions before faster answers. Drawing connections between everyday systems and the people living inside them, he makes complicated ideas useful without reducing their complexity.
The Useful Future · Small Systems
03Samantha Vale writes as S. Vale. From Brisbane, Australia, she creates sweeping contemporary fiction about distance, courage, memory and the choices that draw people back to one another.
South of the Same Sky · Sur bajo el mismo cielo
04Priya Shah writes luminous novels about family, migration and the stories we inherit. Her patient sentences make room for contradiction, tenderness and the private histories that travel between generations. She creates characters who are shaped by where they come from but never confined to a single account of belonging.
The Distance Between Rooms
05Daniel Okoro is a historian and storyteller interested in overlooked archives, civic memory and the people who keep communities legible across generations. His work brings documentary precision to deeply personal narratives, revealing how ordinary records can hold extraordinary lives. He writes for readers who believe history should feel inhabited, questioned and alive.
The Keeper of Names
06Sofia Marin writes warm, observant stories about desire, friendship and the bravery of beginning again. Her novels notice the gestures and silences through which relationships truly change, balancing emotional generosity with clear-eyed wit. The result is intimate fiction that never feels small, following private decisions into the wider lives they transform.
A Map for Returning
07Theo Bennett writes from the meeting point of landscape, memory and attention. His essays make room for slow observation, local knowledge and the pleasures of a well-made walk, while asking what it means to care for a place over time. He approaches nature writing as both invitation and responsibility.
A Field Guide to Staying
08Anika Petrov is a narrator and literary translator working across Russian, German and English. She brings a musician’s ear to rhythm, silence and emotional register, whether she is carrying a sentence between languages or giving it breath in the studio. Her performances are precise, intimate and attentive to the author’s original pulse.
Selected audio editions
09Julian Hart writes intelligent suspense with an architectural eye for place and a patient understanding of consequence. His mysteries are propelled by moral pressure as much as plot, placing ordinary loyalties under extraordinary strain. He creates tension not simply from what happened, but from what a character is willing to hide once it has.
The Quiet Witness
10Marisol Vega writes spare, musical poems about language, distance and the body in a changing city. Her work moves between intimacy and public space, finding emotional weight in precise images and deliberately held silence. She also edits bilingual collections, helping emerging voices retain their texture as they move between languages.
Weather for an Empty Room
11Rowan Clarke makes useful books for complicated days. Their guides combine careful research, humane language and small actions that readers can genuinely carry into a week. Instead of promising a perfected life, Rowan writes toward steadier systems, kinder expectations and practical changes that respect the reality of limited time and energy.
A Kinder Way to Organise
12Noor Calder writes vivid, hopeful fiction for young adults navigating friendship, belonging and a future that has not yet decided what it will be. Their characters are allowed to be uncertain, funny, brave and unfinished as they discover the communities they can choose. Noor writes with warmth, momentum and profound respect for young readers.
The Weather in Between
If you have a distinctive voice, a clear reader and a work with the potential for a lasting life, introduce it to our publishing team. We also welcome translators, narrators, illustrators, editors and creative specialists.
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