Pam Williams
Meet the Instructor
Pam Williams is a Black British author of Grenadian heritage.
In March 2024, Pam’s debut novel ‘A Trace of Sun’ was published by Legend Press. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Writing credits prior to then include publication of work in anthologies ‘City of Stories’ (Spread the Word, 2017) and ‘100 Years Unheard: WW1 and the Afrikan Diasporan Woman’ (Afrikan Heritage Writers, 2018). Pam was selected for writer’s development programme The London Writers Award in 2019 and won the Black Ink Magazine New Writing Prize (2022) with her short story Hibiscus.
In her early career, Pam worked as a fashion journalist, magazine Fashion Editor and freelance stylist. More recently she taught at a special school in London (having retrained as a teacher in 2017). She retired from teaching last summer (2025) and is currently completing her second novel; facilitating workshops that inspire others to follow their writing dreams; and building a legacy that her two young granddaughters will be proud of.