Edward Parnell

Edward has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He’s been the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing (for whom he currently teaches creative non-fiction), and a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to fund a research expedition to the Australian Outback in search of a rare species of parrot. The Listeners, his first book, won the 2014 Rethink New Novels Prize. His latest, Ghostland (William Collins, 2019), is a work of narrative non-fiction that was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir and autobiography, and for the East Anglian book awards. Edward is a keen birdwatcher and naturalist, which also informs his work.