Tammie Meera Ash
Fiction, journalism, picture books.

Tammie is a writer from Bradford and an assistant producer in TV. Before this, she worked and trained as a civil and structural engineer. She has been published in The New Statesman and VICE.
Alongside her journalism, Tammie has been writing for children. She completed the HarperCollins Author Academy in 2021 and her picture book writing was shortlisted for the Golden Egg Award and Commended for Faber’s FAB Prize in 2023. In 2024, she completed the All Stories Mentorship.
Tammie is passionate about championing and telling the stories of underrepresented voices, particularly the working-class and people of colour. She’s currently writing a fiction novel. In 2025, she received the Stacey Halls Bursary to attend an Arvon retreat, was shortlisted for the Sian Meades-Williams New Directions Award, is a Curtis Brown Breakthrough Scholar and won the Northern Promise TLC Northern Writers’ Award.
Tammie was part of the 2021-22 cohort of A Writing Chance.