UEA alumna Sara Taylor has been announced as the winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, along with non-fiction writer Rachel Hewitt. She will receive £20,000 and have access to the British Library’s Americas collections for research during a year-long residency, starting in January 2019, as she works on her third novel Children of Sorrow (Random House). Sara (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013. Her debut novel The Shore was shortlisted for The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award in 2015 and longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award. Her second novel The Lauras was published in 2016 and shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award and the 2017 The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award
Sara Taylor wins Eccles British Library Writer’s Award
