Eley Williams

Eleanor Williams is a British writer. Her debut collection of prose, ''Attrib. and Other Stories'' (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize . Her writing has also been anthologised in ''The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story'' (Penguin Classics, 2018), ''Liberating the Canon'' (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2018) and ''Not Here: A Queer Anthology of Loneliness'' (Pilot Press, 2017).

Williams is an alumna of the MacDowell Workshop and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London, and supervises ''Jungftak'', a journal for contemporary prose poetry.

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." 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."

Williams's stories "Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good" (2018) and "Moonlighting" (2019) have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 under the ''Short Works'' strand, and her story "Scrimshaw" was a finalist for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Award. A 10-part radio series ''Gambits'', based around the theme of chess, was broadcast on Radio 4 beginning in November 2021. Provided by Wikipedia