Robbie was selected for Penguin’s WriteNow Programme (2025-6) as one of eleven out of 2,400+ applicants. His editors are Ben Horslen & Charis Lowe-White. His debut manuscript, One Thing You Can Feel, is a pacy YA Horror-Fantasy about a teenager who is dragged into a terrifying parallel world whose inhabitants’ deepest fears are physically conjured when they panic. The group must harness their phobias as powers to help them escape, all while avoiding the shape-shifting, bestial creator of this dimension, the Fifth Familiar, who has an agenda of its own…

Think: what if Spiderman was an arachnophobe and stuck in Stranger Things’ Upside Down? 

Robbie is a queer Kiwi-Brit who was raised between Essex & Aotearoa and now lives in London with his boyfriend. He’s also a writer for theatre, TV & Film and has had a number of plays performed at Soho Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Despite the horror debut he loves writing comedy and stories full of queer joy. 

Some book faves: Fruit Fly, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Ministry of Time, Yellowface, The Song of Achilles, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Abhorsen Series, Circe, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, His Dark Materials, The Starless Sea, Convenience Store Woman. 

Other faves: eating, Parks & Recreation, cats, eating, board games, eating.