Evie Wyld
Writing Coach
Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of five novels and a memoir. She is the only novelist ever to have won both the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize for fiction in Australia. She is also the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the European Union Prize, the Jerwood Fiction Prize, and the Encore Award.
Evie Wyld is the author of five novels: After the Fire, A Still Small Voice as well as 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.
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.
Evie’s books have been translated into over 20 languages, with one having been optioned for film and another for television. She has written non-fiction and fiction for BBC Radio 4 and is adapting her third novel for television.
Evie lives in South London and is part of the team at an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.
‘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.’