Tommy Finlayson
Author of The Corner Shop on Apocalypse Street
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About Tommy Finlayson
Tommy Finlayson is a writer from Surrey. He has worked as a teaching assistant, cleaner, retail assistant and warehouse picker. His passion for writing began when, at the age of 11, he was given homework to write what he thought happened after Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Inspired by the film he’d watched the night before – Monty Python and the Holy Grail, he wrote a page of nonsense in which he misspelled Cannon as Canoe and where coffee-addicted rabbits murdered the entire cast. He hopes to one day top this piece of writing.
Accolades and awards
- Winner of the 2024 Lime Pictures New Storyteller Award, part of the Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition
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