Dr Anna Metcalfe

• BA English and Related Literatures, The University of York
• MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), The University of East Anglia
• PhD Creative and Critical Writing, The University of East Anglia

Anna Metcalfe's short stories have been published in Lighthouse Journal, Tender, The Best of British Short Stories, The Dublin Review, The Short Anthology and The Lonely Crowd among other places. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Blind Water Pass, was published by John Murray in May 2016. Her first novel, Chrysalis, is published by Granta in the UK in 2023. Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, she taught literature, creative writing and critical theory at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

First year

• Contemporary Creative Writing

Second year

• Editing

Third year

• Creative Writing Project

Postgraduate

• MA Creative Writing Dissertation

Innovative projects in prose fiction

Find out more - our PhD Creative Writing  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

I write prose fiction. My debut novel, Chrysalis, is 'a story about solitude and selfhood, and about the blurred line between self-care and narcissism'.