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 […]
Priscilla Morris
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 […]
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 […]
Priscilla Morris shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction and Ondaatje Prize
Black Butterflies by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been shortlisted for both the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Royal Society of Literature / Ondaatje Prize. Published by Duckworth Books last year, Black Butterflies is also currently shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian […]
Priscilla Morris longlisted for Ondaatje Prize
UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been longlisted for the £10,000 Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Ondaatje Prize for her first novel Black Butterflies, which was published by Duckworth in 2022. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
