Evie Wyld | Granta

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld is the author of After the Fire, A Still Small Voice and All the Birds, Singing, plus the graphic memoir Everything Is Teeth. She lives in south London where she helps run Review, an independent bookshop. She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.  

Evie Wyld on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock

Speedy

Evie Wyld

‘Speedy wanted to swallow the world.’

Five Things Right Now | Issue 142
Five Things Right Now | Issue 142

Evie Wyld | Five Things Right Now

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.

In Conversation | Issue 142
In Conversation | Issue 142

Evie Wyld | Podcast

Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson

Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.

Fiction | Issue 123 padlock
Fiction | Issue 123 padlock

After the Hedland

Evie Wyld

‘I feel the pull of being alone, of answering to no one, the safety of being unknown and far away.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Mrs de Pelet

Evie Wyld

‘I see her with her hands cupped in front of her shouting ‘The “O”, ladies, The Vaginal O’ as we read Shakespeare.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Home: Peckham

Evie Wyld

‘Peckham is the place of my adolescence, my first cobbled together attempts at dressing myself from the charity shops on Rye Lane.’

In Conversation | Issue 123
In Conversation | Issue 123

New Voices: Postcards

Billy Kahora, Jessica Soffer & Evie Wyld

Granta catches up with three authors featured in the New Voices series.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 123
Essays & Memoir | Issue 123

Woman’s Body: An Owner’s Manual

Evie Wyld

‘In the year before my first period, my mother gives me a book called Woman’s Body, An Owner’s Manual.’

Fiction | Issue 123
Fiction | Issue 123

Something Close to Heaven

Evie Wyld

‘It was just past nine when the fuel ran out.’

In Conversation | Issue 123
In Conversation | Issue 123

Evie Wyld | Interview

Evie Wyld & Roy Robins

‘When I was at school I found I received the same satisfaction from writing a short story that I did doing awful self-portraits – only the results were much better.’

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