The Messenger by UEA alumna Megan Davis has won this year’s Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She will receive a cash prize of £1,500. Megan (pictured) is a lawyer in the field of white-collar crime, and an associate at Spotlight on Corruption. Originally from Australia, she previously worked in the film industry and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2017. The Messenger was also the winner of the 2018 Bridport / Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a first novel. Emily Coutts, who graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 2019 as the recipient of that year’s Curtis Brown Award for best student, was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for her novel The Perfectionists.
Megan Davis wins Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize
