Mel Pennant will read from and discuss her novel A Murder for Miss Hortense. Part of SEEN Festival 2025.

Mel Pennant is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She graduated in 2014 with an MA in Screenwriting from the London College of Communication. In 2013, she won the Brockley Jack Write Now 4 award with her play, No Rhyme, and was involved with the Tamasha Theatre Company--writing for the Barbican Box. Mel has written audio plays with Tamasha and the National Archives and, in 2018, she was awarded a place on the Hachette X Tamasha scheme for aspiring playwright novelists. She lives in London with her family and their dog, Bleu, and is currently writing another mystery novel starring Miss Hortense.