Hazell Ward

Hazell lives in Wrexham. For many years as an adult education teacher, she worked with young adults to encourage them to aspire to achieve their dreams. Taking inspiration from her young mentees, she followed her own dreams and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She credits her mum with instilling in her a love of reading and a fierce desire to be a writer.
Hazell has four grown up children and a granddaughter, who take up most of her spare time. She also plays the piano (badly). She was short-listed for the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition in 2021, and won the CWA Short Story dagger in 2023 for her story, Cast a Long Shadow, published by Honno Press. Her debut novel, The Game is Murder, is published by Penguin Michael Joseph. She is currently working on her second novel.