Madeline Docherty is a 23-year-old Scottish writer and winner of the 2022 North Literary Agency Prize. She grew up in the Scottish Borders and now lives in Glasgow, where she works in communications and teaches creative writing workshops for the charity Mind Waves. Gender Theory is her first novel.

I inhaled Gender Theory, reading it in one intoxicating sitting . . . a powerful and necessary novel exploring queer friendship and invisible disabilities, and those intense finding-yourself years

Madeline Docherty is a 23-year-old Scottish writer and winner of the 2022 North Literary Agency Prize. She grew up in the Scottish Borders and now lives in Glasgow, where she works in communications and teaches creative writing workshops for the charity Mind Waves. Gender Theory is her first novel.

I inhaled Gender Theory, reading it in one intoxicating sitting . . . a powerful and necessary novel exploring queer friendship and invisible disabilities, and those intense finding-yourself years