Camille Booker is an author, editor, teacher, PhD candidate, and literary judge for the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Write Your Novel Course, during which she wrote The Woman in the Waves, her second novel. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award and was runner up in the CYA Competition. The manuscript won the Grand Prize of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. Her debut, What If You Fly? , was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019, released by Hawkeye Publishing in 2021 and will be rereleased as Code Name Funnel Web in 2026. When she's not writing, you can find Camille scavenging for sea glass on the shoreline of Dharawal Country, where she resides with her family. Follow Camille on Instagram @camillebookerauthor or visit her website www. camillebooker. com.
