New Writing

Four graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA have been longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, which is open to any début novel written in English and published in the UK. Priscilla Morris, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and from the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing in 2013, is nominated for Black Butterflies (Duckworth); Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, who graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2018 and is currently completing her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing, is longlisted for When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton); Sussie Anie (pictured), who graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2019, is longlisted for To Fill a Yellow House (Phoenix Books); and Emma Styles, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020 and was that year’s winner of the Little, Brown Award for Best Student, is nominated for No Country for Girls (Sphere). The shortlist for the award will be revealed on 20 March, and the winner, who will receive £2,500, will be announced on 24 May.