Selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists 2023, Eley Williams’ short fiction appears in anthologies including The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story, Pilot Press’ Modern Queer Poets, and Liberating the Canon edited by Isabel Waidner.
She has previously worked as a writing lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and served as a judge on various writing competition panels including the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her debut Attrib. And Other Stories won the James Tait Back Memorial Prize, with a second collection of short stories Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good forthcoming in 2024.