What?
Eley Williams scribbles both generally and locally. Please find some of her work catalogued here.
Represented by Lucy Luck at C+W agency.
This is in many ways a purposeless and out-of-date blog.
Who?
Published writer and frightened enthusiast, adjacent roles include committee membership of Generative Constraints, a collective examining and performs practice-based research; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London; Creative Associate with Wignall and Moore; Course Director for Writing Literary Short Fiction programmes with Granta and the Professional Writing Academy.
Previous teaching posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, St. Mary’s University, Greenwich University, The Poetry School. Residencies held at MacDowell, the University of Greenwich, and Berlin’s Hemingway Room.
Recognition
- Longlisted, Dylan Thomas Prize (2025)
- Found amongst Granta‘s Best Young Novelists (2023)
- Betty Trask Award (2021)
- Shortlisted, Desmond Elliott prize (2021)
- Longlisted, The Story prize (2021)
- Shortlisted, BBC National Short Story Award (2020)
- Republic of Consciousness prize (2018)
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2017)
- Longlisted, Dylan Thomas prize (2018)
- Longlisted, Edge Hill prize (2018)
- Christopher Tower Poetry prize (2005)
I am not always wringing my hands, but sometimes it helps