Black Butterflies by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been shortlisted for the Nota Bene Prize. Published by Duckworth Books last year, Black Butterflies was also shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Ondaatje Prize, and is currently shortlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Best Published […]
Black Butterflies
Priscilla Morris longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Black Butterflies by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been longlisted for the 2023 Prize for Fiction. Published by Duckworth Books last year, Priscilla’s debut novel is also currently longlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English […]
Black Butterflies
An extract from Priscilla Morris’s debut novel, Black Butterflies, published by Duckworth on 5 May 2022. I SPRING It sometimes seems to Zora that, with all the teaching and curating and meetings and paperwork and caring and cooking and cleaning and errands, she is floundering at the midpoint of her life. There’s no time […]
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Black Butterflies is the debut novel by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris and is published by Duckworth Books this week. Priscilla grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, she joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA, graduating in […]