Eley Williams

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]

Awards

Bibliography
  • Attrib. and Other Stories, short story collection (2017)
  • Frit, poetry pamphlet (2017)[12]
  • 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. "Spotting the mountweazels: The Liar's Dictionary, by Eley Williams, reviewed". The Spectator. 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  12. "Our Books". Sad Press. 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
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