UEA alumni Tom Lee and Toby Litt have been longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, which is worth £30,000 to the winner. Toby (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 1995 and has since published ele...

At a ceremony at Buckingham Palace today, UEA’s Vice Chancellor Professor Edward Action and UEA’s Director of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan received a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education on behalf of the UEA Creative Wri...

Three UEA writers are among the ten winners of the 2011/12 Escalator Literature Novel Writing competition. Armando Celayo (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2010 and is selected for his novel ‘For The Recovery...

UEA Poetry tutor Andrea Holland has won the 2012 Café Writers Norfolk Commission, an annual prize awarded to a Norfolk poet to produce a pamphlet of poems in response to Norfolk. Andrea was previously the winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Competi...

UEA Poetry tutor Andrea Holland has won the 2012 Café Writers Norfolk Commission, an annual prize awarded to a Norfolk poet to produce a pamphlet of poems in response to Norfolk. Andrea was previously the winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Competi...

Current UEA student Eliza Robertson has been shortlisted for the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, which is this year being judged by Roddy Doyle. The winner will be announced in March and all ten shortlisted stories will be publish...

UEA Creative Writing tutor Jean McNeil is the winner of this year’s PRISM magazine contest for ‘Ice Diaries: a climate change memoir’. Founded in 1959, and associated with Creative Writing programme at the University of Western Columbia, PRI...

Charlotte Stretch is this year's winner of the £1,500 Curtis Brown Award, which is awarded annually to the best student on the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA, as chosen by a panel of Curtis Brown agents. The prize was established by the ...

UEA tutor in Creative Writing Rachel Hore has been included in the shortlist of five in the running for the Historical Romance category of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year Award. The winner of each category will be announced in March and will g...

UEA lecturer Helen Smith has won a Jerwood Award worth £5,000 for her forthcoming biography, ‘Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader’, which will be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK next year, and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA. The...