Ackerley Prize

First of all, Alice Jolly.

Alice is a novelist, a writer, a memoirist who has won both the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for Short Stories and the PEN Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

Her novel, Mary Ann Sayte Imbecile, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio in 2019, and in 2021 she was awarded an O. Henry Award.

Her new volume of short stories, From Far Around They Saw Us Burn, was published in April, and this is her third appearance on an episode of Backlisted.