I met him during a chaotic period of my life when everything was a blank.
Archives for February 2012
Helen Smith wins Jerwood Award
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…
Weekend Interview
Members of UEA’s MA Scriptwriting programme interview Andrew Haigh, following the local premiere of ‘Weekend’.
A Visit
New fiction from UEA’s incoming 2011-12 David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow.
Presca Ahn joins UEA as the David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellow
The recipient of this year’s David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at UEA is Presca Ahn, who joins us from New York. The Fellowship is an annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East …
The Dogged Imagination
James Scudamore with some wise words for aspiring writers, excerpted from Full Circle’s ‘Body of Work’ anthology.
The Western Lit Survival Kit by Sandra Newman
‘The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner’ is
the new book by UEA alumna Sandra Newman and has just been published by Gotham Books. Sandra graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)…
Deirdre Madden’s new book for children
‘Jasper and the Green Marvel’ is the new novel for children by UEA alumna Deirdre Madden and has just been published by Faber and Faber. Deirdre
graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 1985 and published her first novel
Sally Tissington’s debut novel
‘Crocodile on the Carousel’ is the first novel by UEA alumna Sally Tissington and has just been published by G-Press. Sally graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2006. Already an accomplished visual artist, Sally is curr…
Luke Williams wins Saltire Award
UEA Creative Writing alumnus Luke Williams is the winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish First Book of the Year Award for his debut novel, ‘The Echo
Chamber’, which was published by Hamish Hamilton last year. Luke was born in 1977 and grew…