The following is a story from Naomi Wood’s collection This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things published by Phoenix in April 2024. Though their babies were very different ages, Lesley and Irina had returned from maternity leave at the same time: Irina had taken all of her allowance, plus holiday, but Lesley […]
This is why we can't have nice things
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is the newest collection by UEA alumna and Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing Naomi Wood and is published by Phoenix this week. Naomi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2013. Her […]
