Born in Camberwell in 1994, Liv Little founded the magazine gal-dem in 2015 while still a politics and sociology student at the University of Bristol. Providing a platform for stories about female and non-binary people of colour, it made a significant impact on the media landscape, before closing this year under financial pressure. Since then, Little has published her first novel, Rosewater (Dialogue), about gay love and economic adversity in her beloved south London. She will be in conversation with Munroe Bergdorf at the Forwards festival in Bristol, 1 September.