Archive for 2012

‘Darwin’s Ghosts’ by Rebecca Stott

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‘Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists’ is the new book by UEA Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Rebecca Stott and is published by Bloomsbury this week. Rebecca (pictured) is the author of a number of academic book...

Sandeep Parmar’s debut collection

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‘The Marble Orchard’ is the debut collection of poetry by UEA alumna Sandeep Parmar and has just been published by Shearsman Books. Sandeep (pictured) was born in Nottingham in 1979 and raised in Southern California. She graduated from the MA ...

New work by Andrea Mason

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Four new short stories by UEA Creative Writing graduate Andrea Mason have recently been accepted for publication. ‘Black Dog’ is this week’s featured story in the American online literary journal Necessary Fiction. ‘Like The Toad, Ugly and...

DW Wilson short story collection published in the UK

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‘Once You Break A Knuckle’, the debut short story collection by UEA writer DW (Dave) Wilson, is to be published in the UK by Bloomsbury this week. Dave (pictured) joined UEA in 2009 as the inaugural recipient of the Booker Foundation bursary, ...

Denis Hirson shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize

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‘The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street’ by UEA alumnus Denis Hirson has been shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. Denis (pictured) gained his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA in 2004. Born in South Africa and now ...

Adam Foulds and Sam Byers in’Britain’ issue of Granta

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Two UEA writers are included in the latest issue of Granta, the magazine of new writing, whose theme is ‘Britain’. ‘Some Other Katherine’ by Sam Byers is an extract from his debut novel ‘Idiopathy’, which will be published by Fourth Est...

Anne Enright shortlisted for Orange Prize

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UEA Creative Writing alumna Anne Enright has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her fifth novel ‘The Forgotten Waltz’, which was published by Jonathan Cape last year. Anne (pictured) graduated from the Creative Wri...

Philip Langeskov in The Warwick Review

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‘Marta’, a new short story by UEA writer Philip Langeskov, appears in the latest issue of The Warwick Review, the journal of the University of Warwick’s Creative Writing programme, edited by Michael Hulse. Philip (pictured) was born in Copenh...