Moyette Gibbons
(GB)

Moyette Gibbons is a British-Jamaican writer living in French-speaking Switzerland. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina, and studied novel writing with The Novelry, the Faber Academy, and Curtis Brown Creative. She has worked for the BBC, Bloomberg News, the United Nations, NGOs, and is a former Eastern Europe correspondent.

Her novel, GOD AND THE BLUES, won the Hachette UK Bursary for Debut Authors in 2023, and was a finalist for the TLC Pen Factor Award and the David Higham Associates literary agency’s Open Week for Writers. It received a special mention in the Pontas & JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize, was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Watson, Little Prize, the Mslexia Novel Competition, and the Exeter Novel Prize.

Moyette’s short stories have won or been listed in competitions run by BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph, and Kate Mosse, the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is the Communications Director at Black Girl Writers, a mentorship programme linking Black women who write with industry professionals.

Moyette was on the judging panel for the inaugural international Cheshire Novel Prize in 2022. She is represented by Hannah Schofield at LBA Books.

During her residency, Moyette plans to work on the first draft of a new novel set in Cuba, Jamaica, and England.

(Photo © Luc Gibbons)