Eley Williams

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Eley Williams FRSL is a British writer.[1] Her debut collection of prose, Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize[2] and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018.[3] With writing anthologised in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin Classics, 2018),[4] Liberating the Canon (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2018)[5] and Not Here: A Queer Anthology of Loneliness (Pilot Press, 2017),[6] she is an alumna of the MacDowell workshop and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[7] She teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London,[8] and supervises Jungftak, a journal for contemporary prose poetry.[9]

Her first novel, The Liar's Dictionary, was published in 2020, described in The Guardian as a "virtuoso performance full of charm... a glorious novel – a perfectly crafted investigation of our ability to define words and their power to define us".[10] Stuart Kelly in a review in The Spectator wrote of the book: "It deals with love as something which cannot be put into words, and dare not speak its name (done neither stridently nor sentimentally). It is, in short, a delight."[11]

Williams' stories "Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good" (2018) and "Moonlighting" (2019) have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 under the Short Works strand, and her story "Scrimshaw" was a finalist for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Award.[12] A ten part radio series Gambits, based around the theme of chess, was broadcast on Radio 4 beginning in November 2021.[13]

Awards

Selected bibliography

  • 'In pursuit of the swan at Brentford Ait', essay in An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless and Gary Budden (2016)
  • Attrib. and Other Stories, short story collection (2017)
  • Frit, poetry pamphlet (2017)[14]
  • 'Of Père Lachaise, On Business', in We'll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix (2019)
  • 'To Plot, Plan, Redress', on the Rebecca Riots 1839, in Resist: Stories of Uprising (2019)
  • 'Scrimshaw', story anthologised in Still Worlds Turning (2019), shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020[15]
  • The Liar's Dictionary, novel (2020)

References

  1. ^ Revely-Calder, Cal (2017-04-01). "Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams review – life's big microdrama moments". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  2. ^ Onwuemezi, Natasha (2018-03-20). "Influx wins Republic of Consciousness Prize | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  3. ^ "The James Tait Black Prizes – Fiction winners". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  4. ^ Hensher, Philip. "The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  5. ^ Waidner, Isabel (2018-01-16). "Liberating the Canon: Intersectionality and Innovation in Literature". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  6. ^ "Not Here A Queer Anthology of Loneliness : P-U-N-C-H". p-u-n-c-h.ro. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  7. ^ Flood, Alison (2018-06-28). "Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  8. ^ "Dr Eley Williams". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  9. ^ "About". JUNGFTAK. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  10. ^ Cummins, Anthony (2020-07-14). "The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams review – a glorious way with words". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  11. ^ Kelly, Stuart (2020-07-11). "Spotting the mountweazels: The Liar's Dictionary, by Eley Williams, reviewed". The Spectator. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  12. ^ "Scrimshaw by Eley Williams". BBC National Short Story Award 2020. 18 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Gambits". BBC Radio 4. 1 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Our Books". Sad Press. 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
  15. ^ "Sarah Hall Nominated for Fourth Time as 15th BBC National Short Story Award Reveals Bold, Experimental Shortlist Celebrating a Generation of Voices | BBC Short Story Awards". University of Cambridge. 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
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