Hayley Webster

Hayley grew up in and around Newbury in Berkshire and has lived in London, Colchester and for the most part of her adult life, Norfolk.

She studied English and American Literature at the University of Essex, got her first job in magazine editorial, and went on to do an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In 2006 she won an Escalator Award from Writers’ Centre East and a Grant for the Arts to write her first novel, Jar Baby (Dexter Haven, 2012).

Hayley has written for Grazia, The Observer and Mslexia magazines and has been a mentor on the National Writing Centre’s Escalator programme for emerging authors in the East of England. She has also created creative writing resources for the education site Plazoom.

Hayley writes fiction and non fiction for adults and young adults as Hayley Webster, and for younger readers as Hayley Scott.

Hayley works as a primary school teacher in West Berkshire.