Erika Banerji

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Erika’s short fiction has been published in anthologies and journals and she has won and been listed for awards including the 2022-23 Fish Short Story Prize, Plaza Prize, Bridport Prize, RSL V.S Pritchett, Lorian Hemingway, Bristol Short Story, BBC National Short Story and London Short Story Prize.

She has a PhD in English Literature and is an alumna of The Faber Academy Writing a Novel Course and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme2019-20.

Erika is also a journalist, book critic and columnist and has written for several international publications.

She is based in London.

LATEST NEWS

‘The Hibiscus Thief’ is now published by Fairlight Books (14 March 2024)

Erika’s short story ‘The Greatest Hero of Them All’ has been shortlisted for the 2023 Plaza Short Story Prize

Erika has been long listed for the 2022-23 Fish Short Story Prize.

‘She Came To Stay’ is now published in ‘Same Same But Different’ An Anthology of Short Stories, published by Everything With Words, October 2021.

Erika’s short story ‘She Came To Stay’ is one of the Ten Highly Commended stories in the Bridport Short Story Prize 2020.

Erika has been shortlisted for the 2020 Bristol Short Story Prize for her story ‘Marvellous Real’

Erika’s short story ‘The Lodger’ was in the top 60 entries in the BBC National Short Story Award 2019.

She is an alumna of the 2019-2020 London Library Emerging Writers Award.

SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT Published by: Everything With Words, 2021

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THE BRIDPORT PRIZE 2020 ANTHOLOGY

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THE BRISTOL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2020 ANTHOLOGY

THE LONDON LIBRARY EMERGING WRITERS PROGRAMME 2019-2020