UEA Crime Fiction Anthology 2025

Tom Benn: Tom Benn is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and Associate Professor in Crime Writing. His first novel, The Doll Princess (Cape), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger. His other novels include Chamber Music (Cape) and Trouble Man (Cape). He won runner-up prize in the 2019 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, and his essays and fiction have appeared in Granta and the Paris Review. He won the BFI’s iWrite scheme for emerging screenwriters. His first film, 'Real Gods Require Blood', premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the BFI London Film Festival. His fourth novel, Oxblood (Bloomsbury), was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the CWA's Gold Dagger, and in 2023 won the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. He has new fiction in The Book of Manchester (Comma Press, 2024) and Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Chatto, 2025).Trevor Wood: Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for thirty years and considers himself an adopted Geordie. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for sixteen years. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. The Man on the Street, his first novel, was published to widespread critical acclaim and won the 2020 CWA New Blood Dagger. This was followed by One Way Street and Dead End Street. The trilogy was followed by an acclaimed standalone thriller, You Can Run, which was longlisted for Theakston's, and The Silent Killer, first book in the DCI Jack Parker series.