Dr Eley Williams

Eley Williams' Attrib. and other stories (Influx Press, 2017) was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With stories anthologised in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin Classics, 2018) and Liberating the Canon (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2018), she is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Royal Society of Literature. 

 A recipient of the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize, a pamphlet Frit is published by Sad Press.

Recent Fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and granted Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. 

• Creative Writing MA: Supplementary Discourses
• EN3225: Children’s Literature
• EN2215: Creative Writing Structure and Style
• CW2020: Fiction
• CW1010: Introduction to Creative Writing

• Experimental Fiction
• Nineteenth Century Studies
• Onomasiology
• Lexicography
• Conceptual Dictionaries
• Mountweazels
• Esquivalience

Investigating interstices between dictionaries, digression, nonsense and 'the fictive'. Particular interest in occurrences of queered and queering language within lexicographical writing and outré dictionary forms.

Royal Holloway, University of London

Doctorate
Unclear Definitions: Investigating Dictionaries' Fictitious Entries through Creative and Critical Writing

Postgraduate
Critical thesis: "Such a lot of rot": The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold as Commentary to the Creative Drive and 'Writer's Block' Phenomenon

University of Cambridge

Undergraduate
Dissertation: Manual Dexterity: Keats as Failed Physician and Ambitious Poet in 'This Living Hand'