No Country for Girls by UEA alumna Emma Styles has been longlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers’ Association / International Literary Properties John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best debut crime novel of the year. It was published by Sphere last year and previously longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Emma grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London, where she was born. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020, having previously worked as a veterinarian, track-work rider and meditation teacher. She wrote No Country for Girls over the two years of the MA and was awarded the Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction, which is worth £3,000 and is judged by a panel of Sphere Fiction editors for the best graduating student on the MA.
Emma Styles longlisted for CWA/ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
