Evie Wyld
Writing Coach
The prize-winning literary fiction author of All the Birds, Singing and The Echoes, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize for Fiction, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Betty Trask Award.
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Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of five novels: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, The Bass Rock, All the Birds, Singing and The Echoes. She has also published a graphic memoir with illustrator Joe Sumner called Everything is Teeth.
Evie was the first author to have won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize for Fiction. Her novels have been longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, the Sky Arts Breakthrough Award and the James Tait Black Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta’s once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her debut, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Betty Trask Award. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Commonwealth Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
All the Birds, Singing won the Miles Franklin Award, Encore Award, and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize, James Tait Black Prize, and the Sky Arts/Times Breakthrough Award, and longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The Bass Rock was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award and won the Stella Prize.
Evie’s books have been translated into over 20 languages, with options for film and television. She has written for BBC Radio 4. Evie runs Review, an independent bookshop in Peckham, south London, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London. She studied Creative Writing (BA) at Bath Spa University and as an MA at Goldsmiths.
Evie’s Genres
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Memoir
‘I’ve never believed writing ability is innate and fixed. Over years of teaching creative writing, I’ve seen how the right work can be transformational.’
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