Mercia’s Take by UEA alumnus Daniel Wiles has won the Betty Trask Prize, an award for a first novel by a writer under 35. Daniel (pictured) is from Walsall in the West Midlands. He completed the UEA’s Prose Fiction MA in 2020, where he was the recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Mercia’s Take is his […]
Daniel Wiles
Daniel Wiles shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize
Mercia’s Take by UEA alumnus Daniel Wiles has been shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize for a first novel by a writer under 35. Daniel (pictured) is from Walsall in the West Midlands. He completed the UEA’s Prose Fiction MA in 2020, where he was the recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Mercia’s Take […]
Mercia’s Take
An extract from Daniel Wiles’ debut novel, Mercia’s Take, published by Swift Press on 3rd February 2022 Lawrence lifted his head up from his newspaper. Seeing it was Michael, he turned to the side and exhaled. Can work the nightshift if ye want. Pays a bit better. Any because the bloke who works ya […]
Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles
Mercia’s Take is the debut novel by recent UEA alumnus Daniel Wiles and is published by Swift Press this week. Daniel is from Walsall in the West Midlands and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2020 as the recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship.
Tarantula
A Short Story The Tarantula was alone. He had been for as long as he could remember. ‘I am so sad and so alone!’ he said. He was in, as he always was, his burrow. It was dark in there, and this didn’t help relieve the Tarantula’s sorrow. Sadness had become commonplace. He had […]
J Hoi Lum Wai wins Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition
‘Where The Monkeys Went’ by current UEA student J Hoi Lum Wai has won the 2020 Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition, which is open to all BA and MA students in Britain. J (pictured) is from Hong Kong and Canada and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the MA in Creative Writing […]
