About Melissa

 Melissa Welliver writes Young Adult Speculative novels. She works at Writementor and runs the Community Writing Hub for Children's writers. Melissa has been published in two short story anthologies, one with a forward by Jeanette Winterson. She has a self-published novel, The Undying Tower, published in 2021. Her print debut, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, will be published by Chicken House in April 2023.
Melissa has completed the acclaimed Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing Course for children under the tutelage of Catherine Johnson. She has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the #BNAKids award, and Mslexia's Children's Novel Prize, and she was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hachette Children's Novel Award in association with New Writing North, and the Wells Book for Children competition. She lives in the Northwest with her Bassetoodle, Zelda, and is represented by  Lucy Irvine of Peters, Fraser & Dunlop.