‘The Last of the Shower’, a new story by UEA writer Sue Healy, has won the 2011 Highlands & Islands Short Story Association competition. Sue
(pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2009 and has since also won the 2010 W…
Archives for 2011
An Interview With Steve Waters
An interview with Steve Waters, who joined UEA’s School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing in September, 2011.
Re-Drafted: Noah Barleywater Runs Away
John Boyne gives an interesting glimpse of his editorial process working on his award-winning new children’s novel, Noah Barleywater Runs Away.
Jane Harris shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Award
UEA writer Jane Harris has been shortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year category of the Galaxy National Book Awards for her second novel, ‘Gillespie and I’, which was published by Faber and Faber earlier this year. Jane
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‘What We Are Missing’: An Interview With Andrew Cowan
Nadine Karol interviews the novelist Andrew Cowan, Director of Creative Writing at UEA.
Questions I Never Asked My Creative Writing Tutors
In 1984 I was living in Bowthorpe, on the outskirts of Norwich, sharing a flat with an entomologist who was conducting complex experiments with aphids.
Walking, But Slowly
She arrived with the heat-wave that sucked our village dry of any moisture in the summer of 1976.
‘The White Trail’ by Fflur Dafydd
‘The White Trail’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Fflur Dafydd and is published by Seren this week. A contemporary retelling of the medieval Welsh folk tale, ‘Culhwch and Olwen’, it is the fifth in Seren’s series of reworkings from the
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Adam Foulds wins European Union Prize for Literature
UEA alumnus Adam Foulds is one of twelve winners of the 2011 European Union Prize for Literature, announced this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Adam (pictured) completed the Poetry MA in 2000 and published his first novel, ‘The Truth
About The…
David Almond shortlisted for Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
‘My Name is Mina’ by UEA alumnus David Almond has been included on the shortlist of four titles in the running for this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, which will be decided in November. Published by Hodder last year, ‘My Name i…