Andy Thackwray

Andy Thackwray, 41, is currently residing in HMP Hull and has been writing seriously for eighteen months. As a prison writer, he has had a nine-part series and several short stories published in Inside Time the national newspaper for prisoners. His work has also appeared in The Big Issue in the North and he regularly features in Link – the Journal of the National Association of Writers Groups. His yet to be published
novel, This Way Up, won the David Astor Outstanding Award at the 2007 Koestler Awards for the arts inside.