No Country for Girls by UEA alumna Emma Styles has been longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Emma grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London, where she was born. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020, having previously worked as a […]
Emma Styles
Priscilla Morris, Natasha Pulley and Emma Styles shortlisted for Wilbur & Niso Smith Award
Novels by three UEA alumnae have been shortlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Best Published Novel Award. Priscilla Morris (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing in 2013, is nominated for Black Butterflies (Duckworth); Natasha Pulley, who graduated from […]
Emma Styles shortlisted for CWA/ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
No Country for Girls by UEA alumna Emma Styles has been shortlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers’ Association / International Literary Properties John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best debut crime novel of the year. It was published by Sphere last year and previously longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. It is […]
Priscilla Morris, Natasha Pulley and Emma Styles longlisted for Wilbur & Niso Smith Award
Novels by three UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation Best Published Novel Award. Priscilla Morris (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing in 2013, is nominated for Black Butterflies (Duckworth); Natasha Pulley, who graduated from […]
Emma Styles longlisted for CWA/ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
No Country for Girls by UEA alumna Emma Styles has been longlisted for the 2023 Crime Writers’ Association / International Literary Properties John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best debut crime novel of the year. It was published by Sphere last year and previously longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Emma grew […]
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 & […]
No Country for Girls
The opening of Emma Styles’ debut novel, No Country for Girls, published by Sphere on 21 July 2022. The highway is long and flat and arrow-straight, running into the setting sun, and that is how he gets into difficulty. That, and his too-frequent glances between the rearview mirror and the holdall on the passenger […]
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles
No Country for Girls is the debut crime novel by UEA alumna Emma Styles and is published by Sphere this week. Emma grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London, where she was born. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020, having previously worked […]
Emma Styles wins Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award
No Country For Girls by Emma Styles has been announced as this year’s Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction. The award, which is worth £3,000, is judged by a panel of Sphere Fiction editors and awarded to the best graduating student on the UEA MA in Crime Fiction. The inaugural winner in 2017 was Merle Nygate […]
Rigali, Styles and Wood shortlisted for Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction
Ed Wood, Publishing Director at Sphere Fiction, has announced the three titles in the running for this year’s Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction. They are An Off-Cut Murder by Amanda Rigali, No Country For Girls by Emma Styles, and Holloway by Lucy Wood. The award, which is worth £3,000 to the winner, is judged […]
