Penny Pepper is an acclaimed author, poet, speaker and disabled activist. A genre-defying and versatile writer, her work focuses on the examination of difference, inequality and identity. She tells stories we haven’t heard, making others see life differently, always with humour and wisdom
Books by Penny Pepper
My debut poetry collection Come Home Alive (Burning Eye Books).
An incredibly strong… real and important poetry explosion. Liv Torc (Poet and WOMAD Yik. Yak Poetry Shack)
Hemingway Shorts
A Collection of Short Stories From New And Engaged Writers In The Best Tradition of Ernest Hemingway (2021)
Laughed out loud and sobbed a bit while reading First in the World Somewhere. This is a real-life story of ambition, determination, punk, rejection, sex, friendship, equality, writing and cats. It's awful and glorious and you will only understand why if you read it.
- Rachael Marshall,
January 2018
Everyone should read Penny's story. A beautifully-written book... funny, moving and totally unique.'
- Francesca Martinez,
Award-winning Comedian, Writer, Activist
A perfect piece of domestic existentialism…beautifully read and written.” Highly Commended - Story Slam, Royal Festival Hall
- October 2014
My 80s onwards memoir, post Punk and rebellion (Unbound)
A force of nature and a voice like no other. Brilliantly funny and brilliantly frank. Liz Carr ( Award winning actor and activist)
Dusk
A collection of stories and from Solstice Shorts Festival 2017.
What People Are Saying
A wonderful memoir, this is the great untold tale of our times told with passion, humour and a compellingly visceral energy. Penny Pepper’s story is of a true struggle for liberation against the odds. Essential reading.
- Jake Arnott,
best selling British novelist and dramatist,
author of The Long Firm and six other novels.
Penny Pepper has written a rebel yell of a memoir for every girl, boy, whatever who defied the labels others would put on them. First In The World Somewhere defies the narrow expectations placed on anyone deemed an outsider by gender, class or disability. It is a punk middle finger of defiance and a glorious read for anyone ever told to know their place.
— Danuta Kean, Guardian Books,
Literary Journalist
A compelling, passionate writer and storyteller
- Maggie Arye, BBC Radio 4 Producer
Links to Author Pages
Opening the long-closed door to disabled people’s sex lives.
A modern day classic. Elegant and intelligent writing that has sex as its subject matter. Amazon Review
Watch this space!!…
Coming Soon…..
Look out for my upcoming book!
Praise for First in the World Somewhere Penny Pepper has written a marvellous book. It’s full of fun, music, sex and determination. She never feels sorry for herself and comes up with some ingenious ways to overcome her disabilities so that she can fulfil her ambitions. It’s very well written with some surprise twists and turns!!
- Sue Tilley aka Big Sue,
artist, author and model for Lucian Freud.
This is a revolutionary book [Desires Reborn] that will at once turn you on, change your thinking, make you laugh, cry, and most of all realise that this kind of fiction is so long overdue its almost criminal.
-Mat Fraser
Actor / performer
You write beautifully, a precious gift.
- Morrissey (in the mists of time)
