New Writing

Keeping in Touch by UEA alumna Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize, for a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home. Anjali (pictured)  graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing in 2014. Her first novel Saraswati Park was published in 2010 and won a Betty Trask Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was joint winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction, as well as being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Hindu Literary Prize. Another Country, her second novel, was published in 2012 and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. The Living, her third novel, was published by 4^th Estate in 2016 and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The first chapter of Keeping in Touch, under the title ‘Everlasting Lucifer’, was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award in 2017