Eley Williams's published works include poetry, Frit (Sad Press, 2017) collection of prose, Attrib. and other stories (Influx Press 2017). The latter went on to win the Republic of Consciousness Prize, is currently shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was listed as a Book of the Year by The Guardian and The New Statesman. Recent work has appeared in Liberating the Canon (2018), Over Here: A Queer Anthology of Joy (2018), Best British Short Stories 2018 (Salt, 2018) and The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story (Penguin, 2018). In residence, Williams concentrated on drafting and redrafting elements of her forthcoming novel, scheduled to be published in 2018 by William Heinemann in the UK. It was announced during her stay at MacDowell that Eley has been appointed as a Fellow to the Royal Literary Society, Britain's foremost organization for the advancement of literature.
Eley Williams
Studios
Irving Fine
Eley Williams worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…