Tue 4th March, 11:30am
Currently writing her fourth book, to be published by Penguin in 2026, Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of three books published by HarperCollins:
Handle with Care (2022), selected and presented to The Queen in 2024 by the National Literacy Trust to mark its 30th anniversary, and longlisted for Times of India’s Best Nonfiction Book 2023, short story collection Strange (2019), and Memoirs of My Body (2017), Best Nonfiction Book at NWS Writing Awards 2018 and a UNESCO Cities of Literature Best Read 2017.
The first South Asian woman to be commissioned to write international opera, Shreya has co-written Welsh National Opera’s film series Creating Change (2020) and epic production Migrations (2022), lauded by The Times and The Guardian as one of 2022’s best shows. In 2021, her play Quiet premiered at London’s award-winning Tara Theatre, alongside new work from Hanif Kureishi.
Shreya is a creative writing teacher for British and Indian institutions, including the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Calcutta, and Punjab, and a writer-in-residence for First Story, Britain’s leading creative writing charity.
Her short fiction, poetry, and essays, published in anthologies, broadcast on BBC and Australian radio, and shortlisted for prizes in India and Britain, have spearheaded British social justice campaigns (e.g. National Bystander Awareness Day 2020 and 2021).
These anthologies include Five Leaves Publications’ UNESCO City of Literature bid-winning These Seven (2015), The Third Script (2016) published by Australia’s Transportation Press, University of East Anglia’s Writing Places (2019), and, unusually for a living writer as well as one of colour, British secondary school textbooks (Detectives, Hodder Education, 2020).
She has also been fiction judge for Writing East Midlands and The Society of Authors’ Aurora Prize 2022, Derby Book Festival 2023, and New Writers UK 2025.
Former television journalist for CNBC, MTV, and East India head of Australasian Channel [V], Shreya continues to write columns for the international media (e.g. CNN, National Geographic, The Guardian, Times of India, The Asian Age).
An illustrator for Hachette, HarperCollins, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Nottingham City Council, and Welsh National Opera, Shreya’s art has been exhibited in galleries in Britain and China.
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