My collection Strange Shape has been shortlisted for The East Anglian Book Awards 2024! I'm in excellent company; also on the Poetry shortlist are Jenny Pagdin and Rachel Goodman. I was stunned to see my name on the same shortlist as Sarah Perry (Fiction) and Lavinia Greenlaw (General Non-Fiction)! See the full shortlist here.
My sincerest thanks to The National Centre for Writing, Jarrolds Norwich, The Eastern Daily Press and The University of East Anglia.
"For a handful of years, I lived away from Norwich; I wrote Strange Shape out of profound homesickness for the city and land that I love. It was my dream for Strange Shape to place in The East Anglian Book Awards, and being shortlisted has given me the best possible homecoming. I’m supremely grateful to everyone involved in the awards, to my publisher, and to everyone who supported and encouraged me to write this book, thank you for making me a part of East Anglia."
Cat Woodward
The category winners will be announced in the Eastern Daily Press in January, followed by the Overall Book of the Year Award and Exceptional Contribution Award later at an event at Dragon Hall on Thursday 13th February. Book your ticket here.
About Strange Shape:
‘Who’s this I hear, ringing like the tiny bell in a nut?’
Strange Shape, the debut collection of Cat Woodward, is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck across fens and fields of history, following the rivers towards the waves of the rising tides returning to claim the land. Imaginative, lyrical and full of dark magic, Strange Shape takes an East Anglian city and shifts it into unexpected forms.
‘Exceptional. Strange Shape balances inventiveness and tension. Her writing becomes a visionary exercise.’
Dr Andrew McDonnell, Gatehouse Press Editor
Get your copy here.
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