New Writing

I Got A Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk is a true-crime story by UEA alumna Eliza Robertson, with Myles Dolphin, and is published this week by Penguin Random House. Eliza joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2011 as that year’s recipient of the UEA-Booker Foundation scholarship. She graduated in 2012 as the recipient of the Curtis Brown Award and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2017. Her debut collection of short fiction, Wallflowers, was published in the UK by Bloomsbury in 2015. Her debut novel, Demi-Gods, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. In Canada she has won three national awards for her short stories and has twice been longlisted for the Journey Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize and the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In both 2015 and 2016 she was shortlisted for a Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award.