UEA alumnus Jon Stone has been announced as one of the winners of this year’s Eric Gregory Awards. The awards are worth £3,000 each and are given for collections by poets under the age of 30. Jon (pictured) was born in Derby in 1983 and currentl…
Archives for June 2012
Slicing Celeriac
Naomi Alderman shares her experience of being translated at the BCLT Summer School.
Constable and Robinson to sponsor the Corsair Bursary
The publisher Constable & Robinson is to sponsor an annual award for a student to study the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA. The Corsair Bursary will be worth £5,000 and will be open to students undertaking the course who are aged 25…
Emily Midorikawa in Untitled Books
‘The Picture of Mrs Brewster’ by UEA alumna Emily Midorikawa is featured in the New Voices of section of this month’s issue of the online literary journal Untitled Books – www.untitledbooks.com. Emily (pictured) graduated from the Creative Wr…
Joe Dunthorne wins Encore Award
UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne is the winner of this year’s Encore Award for his novel, ‘Wild Abandon’. The Encore Award, which is for the year’s best second novel, is worth £10,000 and was judged by Alex Clark, Peter Parker and Kate Summerscal…
MAKING THE CROSSING: THE POET AS TRANSLATOR: PART 3
The conclusion of the three-part serialisation of Sean O’Brien’s 2012 Sebald Lecture
Call for Submissions
The Threads Group: Call for submissions (deadline Sunday 16th September, 2012) The Threads Group is a group of postgraduate students working in creative writing and literary translation at the University of East Anglia and a group of undergraduate students studying English Language and Literature at the University of Inonu, Malatya, under the guidance of their […]
Two Hearts
A translation of a poem by modern Turkish poet, Cemal Süreya.
Making the Crossing: the Poet as Translator: PART 2
The second of a three-part serialisation of Sean O’Brien’s 2012 Sebald Lecture
Another Country by Anjali Joseph
‘Another Country’ is the second novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph and is published by 4th Estate this week. Anjali was born in Bombay in 1978 and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, before graduating from the Prose Fiction strand of the…