New Writing

Parables, Fables, Nightmares by UEA alumnus Malachi McIntosh has been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, a competition that celebrates emerging and established writers, highlighting the diverse voices and exceptional talents of contemporary short story writers from across the UK and Ireland. Malachi was born and lives in Birmingham, England, but spent his childhood in the United States. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford and the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s College. He was until recently the editor of Wasafiri Magazine. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Caribbean Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent, and Comma Press’s Book of Birmingham, and have been commissioned by the National Trust and Lincoln University. His non-fiction book, A Revolutionary Consciousness: Black Britain, Black Power, and the Caribbean Artists Movement, won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn award, was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award, and will be published by Faber in 2025