‘Where The Monkeys Went’ by current UEA student J Hoi Lum Wai has won the 2020 Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition, which is open to all BA and MA students in Britain. J (pictured) is from Hong Kong and Canada and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA this year. Two other current MA students, Tanya Banerjee and Daniel Wiles were shortlisted for the prize, which was won last year by UEA student Jon Platten.
J Hoi Lum Wai wins Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition
