UEA alumnus Andrew Miller has been included on the shortlist of four for the 2012 Costa Novel Award. Andrew (pictured) is nominated for his sixth novel, ‘Pure’, which was published by Sceptre earlier this year. He graduated from the Prose
Fict…
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Christie Watson shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award
Recent UEA graduate Christie Watson has been included on the shortlist of four for the 2012 Costa First Novel Award. Christie (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2008 and published her first novel, ‘Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away’,
with…
Four UEA Authors longlisted for Impac Dublin Award
Four graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA are among the authors longlisted for the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, which is worth 100,000 euros to the winner, making it the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of f…
Meghan Purvis wins The Times Stephen Spender Prize
UEA writer Meghan Purvis has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Meghan came to England from Fresno, UEA, to take the Creative Writing Prose MA at UEA in 2005 and completed her
PhD in Cre…
Inventing Dietrick Zimmerman
I read about a writer hiding out in Butte, a Jewish writer by the name of Dietrick Zimmerman…
Agatha & Max
‘Where’s owls?’ asked Max. ‘I suppose they’re in the trees,’ said Agatha. ‘They live in the trees.’
Sediment
In the last weeks of the school year the hallways empty out and summer gets so close you can taste it like iron in your throat.
Branches
On 7th January I pushed through the hot and busy club, in search of another beer, oblivion.
Esther Morgan shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize
UEA writer Esther Morgan has been shortlist for this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize for her third collection of poetry, ‘Grace’, which has just been published by
Bloodaxe Books. Esther graduted from the Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 1997 and subs…
Gayle O’Brien wins Hookline Novel Competition
UEA graduate Gayle O’Brien has won the 2011 Hookline Novel Competition for her novel for young
adults, ‘Underground’. Gayle (pictured) grew up in rural New England and moved to the UK in 1999 after gaining a BA in Literature from Sarah Lawre…