Mike Edwards is a writer, workshop facilitator and performance poet from Teesside. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Northumbria University and is a previous winner of a Northern Writers Award. He has performed at spoken word events and festivals across the UK and has written and performed one-man shows, including The Rise and Fall of the Poetry Bandits (performed on Radio 4s The Verb) and Damn Seagulls (toured nationally). His debut novel, Riverskin, is inspired by the landscape and folklore of his native north east.

Think The Little Mermaid but with discarded shopping trolleys and techno. It’s a brilliant contemporary twist and hats off to Mike Edwards for dressing his heroine in a Tesco carrier bag . . . Riverskin is a bold debut and its atmosphere lingers long after the last page — much like the smell of scum on anyone who dares a dip in a British river.

Mike Edwards is a writer, workshop facilitator and performance poet from Teesside. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Northumbria University and is a previous winner of a Northern Writers Award. He has performed at spoken word events and festivals across the UK and has written and performed one-man shows, including The Rise and Fall of the Poetry Bandits (performed on Radio 4s The Verb) and Damn Seagulls (toured nationally). His debut novel, Riverskin, is inspired by the landscape and folklore of his native north east.

Think The Little Mermaid but with discarded shopping trolleys and techno. It’s a brilliant contemporary twist and hats off to Mike Edwards for dressing his heroine in a Tesco carrier bag . . . Riverskin is a bold debut and its atmosphere lingers long after the last page — much like the smell of scum on anyone who dares a dip in a British river.

Mike Edwards is a writer, workshop facilitator and performance poet from Teesside. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Northumbria University and is a previous winner of a Northern Writers Award. He has performed at spoken word events and festivals across the UK and has written and performed one-man shows, including The Rise and Fall of the Poetry Bandits (performed on Radio 4s The Verb) and Damn Seagulls (toured nationally). His debut novel, Riverskin, is inspired by the landscape and folklore of his native north east.

Think The Little Mermaid but with discarded shopping trolleys and techno. It’s a brilliant contemporary twist and hats off to Mike Edwards for dressing his heroine in a Tesco carrier bag . . . Riverskin is a bold debut and its atmosphere lingers long after the last page — much like the smell of scum on anyone who dares a dip in a British river.