Professional Bio
Siobhan Curham is a best-selling and award-winning author of 50+ books for adults, young adults and children – fiction and non-fiction – and her books have been translated into 13 different languages. She is also a university drop-out who very nearly gave up on her writing dream because, as a former council estate kid, she didn’t believe she belonged in the middle class world of publishing.
Because her path to publication was so full of obstacles (both internal and external) Siobhan has made it her mission to help as many people as possible overcome their fears and achieve their writing dreams and she has given talks and workshops on writing to thousands of people all over the world. She offers one-to-one writing mentoring and will be launching her first online writing course, The Writing Adventure, in January 2025 (visit the Work With Me page for more info).
In September 2023 Siobhan gave up her apartment in the UK, donating all of her furniture and appliances to charity and giving away most of her other belongings, in order to travel the world solo while she writes and does her mentoring work. She shares weekly uplifting updates inspired by her adventures via her weekly Substack letter, DREAM DARE DO, which you can subscribe to for free here.
Siobhan has written for many newspapers, magazines and websites, including The Guardian, Breathe magazine, Cosmopolitan, Writers’ Forum, DatingAdvice.com, Mother and Baby, Practical Parenting and Take a Break. She has also been a guest on various radio and TV shows, including Woman’s Hour, BBC News, GMTV and BBC Breakfast.
And she has spoken at businesses, schools, universities and literary festivals around the world, including the BBC, Hay Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Bath Festival, Ilkley Festival, YALC, YA Shot, London Book Fair and Sharjah Reading Festival.
She also worked as a celebrity ghost-writer for several years, helping musicians, TV personalities, Youtubers and entrepreneurs create best-selling fiction and non-fiction.
Publishers Siobhan’s worked with include:
Penguin Random House, Faber & Faber, Egmont, Walker Books, Bloomsbury, Nosy Crow, Simon & Schuster, Usborne, Hachette Childrens’s Group
Her books for adults are:
Antenatal & Postnatal Depression (Random House), Sweet FA (Hodder & Stoughton), Frankie Says Relapse (Hodder & Stoughton), The Scene Stealers (Hodder & Stoughton), Dare to Write a Novel., Something More … a Spiritual Misfit’s Search for Meaning (Little Brown), An American in Paris (Bookouture), Beyond this Broken Sky (Bookouture), The Paris Network (Bookouture), The Secret Keeper (Bookouture), The Storyteller of Auschwitz (Bookouture), The Secret Photograph (Bookouture), The Stars Are Our Witness (Bookouture), The Resistance Bakery (Bookouture), The Lost Story of Sofia Castello (Bookouture).
Her books for young adults are:
Dear Dylan (winner of the Young Minds Book Award – Egmont)
Finding Cherokee Brown (Egmont)
Shipwrecked (Egmont)
Dark of the Moon (Egmont)
True Face (Faber & Faber)
The Moonlight Dreamers (Walker Books)
Tell it to the Moon (Walker Books)
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow (Walker Books).
Clementine and Rudy (Walker Books)
Dreaming By Starlight (Walker Books)
She has also written many books for children under pen names, including the internationally successful Zoe’s Rescue Zoo series.
Siobhan’s new novel, The Lost Story of Sofia Castello, is out in April 2025, and available to pre-order on Amazon here.
