Bren Gosling, an alumnus of City University's Novel Studio, is published in numerous anthologies, and was a finalist of the London, Brighton and Exeter Short Story Prizes. Street Sweeper won the Novel London Literary Prize in 2021, and the inaugural Book Edit Writer's Prize for under-represented writers. The novel was shortlisted for the New Anglia Manuscript Prize in 2023. Bren's plays have garnered two Offies nominations, and an ONComm Commendation.