Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and activist*. She has written six books, including Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014) and Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016). Laurie has worked on The a Nevers (HBO) and Netflix’s ‘The Haunting’. She writes essays, columns, features and gonzo journalism about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, technology and mental health and she gets time, she also writes creepy political science fiction.

You can find more regular updates and support Laurie’s work on Patreon.

She makes words for money, trouble and social change for lots and lots of places including The Guardian, Long Reads, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Staresman, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. When she’s not on the road, Laurie is based between London and Los Angeles.

 

Getting in touch:

Twitter: @pennyred

Email: Laurie.penny@gmail.com- but for most inquiries it’s better and quicker to contact one of the following:

Manager/TV/film: Brandy Rivers –

brandyr@industryentertainment.com

US literary agent: Russell Galen- russellgalen@ssglit.com

UK/non-fiction agent: Veronique Baxter- veroniquebaxter@davidhigham.co.uk

 

*On activism, journalism and how they fit together: here and here.