Lucy Neave has benefited from mentorships and from the insights of readers since she started writing fiction. She is interested in mentoring writers working on short and long form fiction in all genres, and in helping people from all communities and backgrounds to improve their writing and to find an audience for their work. With twenty years of experience in mentoring writers in universities and in the broader community, she finds it satisfying to watch rough drafts develop into publishable manuscripts. 

Lucy is the author of the novels Believe in Me (winner of the ACT Book of the Year, 2022; highly commended in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards) and Who We Were (shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year, 2014), a Griffith Review prize-winning novella set in a horse hospital in Dubai, and short stories published in Australian and American literary journals. She is a former Fulbright scholar who completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing in the US.  She currently teaches creative writing at the ANU in Canberra where she lives with her family.

Mentorship with Lucy will take place remotely as she is overseas for much of the mentorship period.