Karon Alderman

Karon is the New Writing North x Hachette 2022 winner, and is based in Newcastle with her husband, four children and assorted pets. Prior to this, her brilliant children's fiction writing won the Northern Promise Award 2012, and came runner-up in the 2010 Frances Lincoln Diverse Fiction Award. She currently works as an English and creative writing teacher, dyslexia specialist and exams adjustment assessor at Newcastle City Learning.