Game Theory, a novel-in-progress, by current UEA student Niamh Connolly has won the Women’s Prize Trust’s 2024 Discoveries Prize. Niamh (pictured) is an Irish writer, who is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the UEA. She has a BA degree in English and History from University College Cork. Her writing has appeared […]
Niamh Connolly
Niamh Connolly has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize – Discoveries
Game Theory by UEA alumna Niamh Connolly has been shortlisted for the Discoveries Prize, a programme run by the Women’s Prize Trust in partnership with Curtis Brown literary agency, the Curtis Brown Creative Writing school and Audible, which aims to find and support aspiring female writing talent from across the UK and Ireland and culminates in the awarding […]
Sophie Hampton, Jessica Worsdale, and Niamh Connolly longlisted for the Women’s Prize – Discoveries
Two UEA alumnae, Sophie Hampton (Creative and Critical PhD 2019) & Jessica (Jess) Worsdale (pictured) (MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2023) and a current student, Niamh Connolly (MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction) have been longlisted for the Women’s Prize’s Discoveries Prize, a category for novel openings from unpublished and un-agented women writers in […]