Wes Brown

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Wes Brown is a writer, lecturer and retired pro wrestler. He was the recipient of a CHASE scholarship to research narrative non-fiction at the University of Kent and is the Programme Director of MA Creative Writing at Birkbeck.
His work has appeared in magazines and journals on and offline including The Real Story, New Humanist, Litro, Aesthetica, Literary Review, The Mechanic’s Institute Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Critic.
His debut work of autofiction, Breaking Kayfabe, which explores narrative theories of identity and questions of authenticity through the fictionalisation of his time as a pro wrestler was published by Bluemoose. His forthcoming work of narrative non-fiction, When Lights Are Bright, combines true crime and social history to investigate the disappearance of Shannon Matthews.