New Writing

UEA alumnus DW (Dave) Wilson has been shortlisted for the 2016 Manchester Fiction Prize for his short story ‘All This Concrete Beneath Your Feet’. Dave (pictured) was born in British Columbia and joined UEA as the inaugural recipient of the Booker Foundation bursary. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and from the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2014. His first collection of short fiction, Once You Break A Knuckle, was published in 2011 and shortlisted for both the British Columbia Book Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. One of the stories, Dead Roads, was the winner of the 2011 BBC National Short Story Award. His first novel Ballistics was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the 2014 Desmond Elliott Prize. Last year he was the winner of Canada’s $6,000 CBC Short Story Prize. He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Victoria in Canada. The winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize, which is worth £10,000, will be announced on 25th November.