About

Haleh Agar is a novelist, short story writer and an award-winning essayist. Her short story ‘Not Contagious’ was Highly Commended by the 2019 Costa Short Story Award. She won the Brighton Prize for a piece of flash fiction, and her narrative essay ‘On Writing Ethnic Stories’ won The London Magazine’s inaugural essay competition. Haleh has run writing workshops and spoken at literary events such as the London Library. She was part of the judging panel for The London Magazine’s 2021 short story prize, has judged Aesthetica magazine's 2022 short story competition, and was on the 2023 Jhalak Prize judging panel- a national book prize.