When We Were Birds by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has won the Fiction category in the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2018. She is […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Priscilla Morris and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo shortlisted for Authors’ Club First Novel Award
UEA alumna Priscilla Morris and current student Ayanna Lloyd Banwo have been shortlisted for the 2023 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, which is open to any début novel written in English and published in the UK. Priscilla (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and from the PhD in […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo longlisted for Jhalak Prize
When We Were Birds by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been longlisted for the 2023 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by British/British resident BAME writers. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2018. She is currently completing […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo longlisted for OCM Bocas Prize
When We Were Birds by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Her novel is on a shortlist of three titles in the running for the Fiction category of the prize. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University […]
Sussie Anie, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Priscilla Morris and Emma Styles longlisted for Authors’ Club Award
Four graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA have been longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, which is open to any début novel written in English and published in the UK. Priscilla Morris, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and from the PhD in Creative & […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award
Trinidadian novelist and current UEA research student Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been announced as one of the two winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, along with Jarred McGinnis. Both are awarded £20,000 and up to a year’s residency with the British Library to develop their forthcoming books, plus the opportunity to showcase […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and Malachi McIntosh shortlisted for Eccles Centre/Hay Festival Award
Two alumni of the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA have been shortlisted for this year’s Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award, which is given annually to two writers in the early stages of a new book relating to the Americas. The Award is worth £20,000 and the winners also receive a residency at […]
When We Were Birds
An extract from When We Were Birds, the debut novel by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2022 Yejide Is three days Yejide curl up on her bed under the mosquito net, listening to the storm outside. Three days since the wind set up and the first few fat raindrops pound […]
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds is the first novel by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Ayanna is from Trinidad & Tobago and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from UEA in 2018, where she is now a Creative […]
