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 […]
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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 […]
Violet Kupersmith longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Build Your House Around My Body, the debut novel by former UEA writing fellow Violet Kupersmith, has been longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was published by Oneworld last year. Violet (pictured) joined UEA as the David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow in 2015. She was born in rural Pennsylvania in 1989, and […]
Diana Evans shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Ordinary People by UEA alumna Diana Evans has been shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Diana (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. Her debut novel 26a was published in 2005 and won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel Writer of the Year prize […]
