Helen Sedgwick
Wildland Founding Editor
Helen Sedgwick is a literary editor and a cross-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and crime. Her debut novel, The Comet Seekers (Harvill Secker 2016), was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Herald, and her second novel, The Growing Season (Harvill Secker 2017), was shortlisted for the Fiction Book of the Year in Scotland’s National Book Awards. Most recently she has written a folk horror crime trilogy, The Burrowhead Mysteries, of When the Dead Come Calling (Point Blank 2020), Where the Missing Gather (Point Blank 2021) and What Doesn’t Break Us (Point Blank 2022). Her short fiction has been published internationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She was awarded the Creative Scotland Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship for 2021-22.
Helen was the managing director of Cargo Publishing, and has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University. She was co-founding editor of Fractured West and managing editor of Gutter until 2014. As a literary editor, Helen has worked with McSweeney’s, Cargo Publishing, Jenny Brown Associates, Freight Books, Edinburgh International Book Festival, and Edinburgh University. She is a lead reader for Open Book and has taught creative writing for Glasgow, Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Stirling Universities and community projects across Scotland. She founded Wildland Literary Editors in 2012. You can read more on her website and follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
