Pearse& was founded in 2015. 

Josie Pearse runs writing  groups and manages the day to day business of  a literary agency specialising in non-fiction. She gained her PhD from Cardiff University with her thesis, Writing and Not Writing on the Cusp of Life and Fiction.  

Josie has taught creative writing for most of her life. She has been a writer in residence and worked with people  at all levels of skill to bring their stories out into the world.  Her pedagogical approach is based on the simple principle that writing is learned by doing  - and refining. A writer's knowledge of her own process is as important a tool as any other: Josie aims to help each writer master it along with the others - the one she knows herself, at least!

She has published two novels under a pseudonym and has two more in the pipeline. She  has put together several collections of new writers' voices. She edits at Fifteenth Letter Press