Barry Gornell

Represented by Nicola Barr

Barry Gornell was born in Liverpool and now lives on the West Coast of Scotland. He is a novelist/screenwriter, ex fire-fighter, truck driver and bookshop manager. His short films Sonny’s Pride and The Race were broadcast on STV. Graduating from the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Masters programme in 2008, he was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Bursary in 2009. His short fiction has been published in the Herald newspaper, Let’s Pretend, 37 STORIES ABOUT (IN)FIDELITY, Gutter 03 and Gutter 04. THE HEALING OF LUTHER GROVE was his first novel. His second, THE WRONG CHILD, was published by Orion in late 2017.

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