Ghost Time, an unpublished novel by UEA alumnus Abhishek Prasad, has won the 2021 Bath Novel Award. Abhishek (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2020 as the recipient of an International Excellence Scholarship. He researched and wrote much of the novel on the MA and will receive prize money of £3,000. For the last ten years he has worked in advertising in Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, and London. Everything is Uneven by 2017 UEA alumnus Richard O’Halloran was longlisted for this year’s Bath Novel Award. Previous winners include UEA Crime MA graduate, Kate Simants, who won in 2019 with A Ruined Girl (Viper Books 2020) and Prose Fiction MA graduate Kim Sherwood, who won in 2016 with Testament (riverrun 2018).
Abhishek Prasad wins Bath Novel Award
