Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for the Society of Authors ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award. The winner will receive £2,000 and the runner up, £1,000. Up to four shortlisted authors will each receive £500. Naomi Wood (pictured)—who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008, completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2013, and is currently an Associate Lecturer at UEA—is nominated for her story ‘A/A/A/A/’; and Edward Hogan, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004, is nominated for his story ‘Little Green Man’.
Naomi’s first novel The Godless Boys was published in 2011 and she became the inaugural British Library Eccles Centre Writer-in-Residence in 2012. Her second novel Mrs Hemingway won the 2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was a Richard and Judy Bookclub Choice. The Hiding Game, her most recent novel, was published in 2019 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown. She won the 2023 BBC National Short Story prize for her story ‘Comorbidities”. She recently published a short story collection This is Why We Cant Have Nice Things.
Edward’s first novel, Blackmoor, was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. It won the Desmond Elliot Prize. The Hunger Trace (2011) was shortlisted for both the Encore Award and the Portico Prize. Daylight Saving, his debut children’s novel, was shortlisted for the 2013 Branford Boase Award and the Leeds Book Awards. In 2021 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and was shortlisted in the Galleybegger Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. Last Year he was again shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize.
