The Anniversary is the new novel by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Stephanie Bishop and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Originally from Australia, where she taught at the University of New South Wales, Stephanie joined UEA earlier this year as the co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). She is the author of three previous novels – The Singing, The Other Side of the World, and Man Out of Time – and has received numerous prize, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). In 2006 she was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists of the Year. She has received fellowships to Yaddo, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Himachal Pradesh University, and Oxford University, where she was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing, and holds a PhD from Cambridge University. Stephanie’s essays and fiction have appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Monthly and the Sydney Review of Books, among other publications.
