Dolan Cummings
writer and novelist; co-director, Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life

Dolan Cummings is the author of several novels, most recently The Sacred Virgin and the Spurned Bride (2026) and The Pictish Princess…and other stories from before there was a Scotland (2023). He writes untimely essays on Substack at L’esprit de l’escalier​ and wrote the Letters on Liberty pamphlet, Taking Conscience Seriously (2021). He is also a co-director of the Campaign for Freedom in Everyday Life.

Dolan lives in the Lake District where he works as a freelance copywriter, speechwriter and editor.

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