Current UEA undergraduate Mariama Ives-Moiba is one of the winners of the 2012 Trinity College International Playwriting Competition for her play ‘A Concrete Jungle Full of Wild Cars’. The play is set in Sierra Leone and is the winner in the ca…
Archives for October 2012
Tom Benn and DW Wilson reach shortlist of Dylan Thomas Prize
Two graduates of the 2010 Creative Writing MA at UEA have been included on the shortlist of five in contention for this year’s University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, which is worth £30,000 to the winner and is open to any published writer in th…
UEA Creative Writing BA tops the National Student Satisfaction Survey
The undergraduate Creative Writing programme at UEA has achieved joint first place for overall student satisfaction in the 2012 National
Student Satisfaction Survey. Along with Winchester University and the
University of Hull, UEA achieved a scor…
Emily Midorikawa placed third in new novel award
UEA alumna Emily Midorikawa has been placed joint-third in the SI Leeds Literary Prize, a new award for unpublished fiction by Black and
Asian women based in the UK. The prize is run by Soroptimist International of Leeds in partnership with the Il…
Ji-Ji and Mei-Mei
A novel excerpt from the 2012-13 David TK Wong Writing Fellow at UEA
Tom Benn, Edward Hogan and Mark Illis shortlisted for Portico Prize.
Three UEA Creative Writing alumni have been shortlisted for this year’s Portico Prize for Literature, which is worth £10,000 to the winner and is intended to celebrate books set mainly or wholly in the North of England. Mark Illis
gradu…
‘Effie Gray, Fair Maid of Perth’ by Linda Randall
‘Effie Gray, Fair Maid of Perth’ is the first book by UEA alumna Linda Randall, and has just been published by Melrose Books. Linda (pictured)
read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and has taught French, Italian and English as a Fore…
Bitter Pastoral – the voice of the land
What is the relationship between landscape, memory, writing – and expeditionary walking? Following a 150 kilometre walk in Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, Jean McNeil reflects on the enduring pull of the pastoral, even in the harshest places.
The 2012 UEA Creative Writing anthologies
This year’s UEA Creative Writing anthologies
are published this month by Eggbox and will be launched with public reading events in Norwich and
London. Published in three separate volumes – Prose, Poetry and Scriptwriting – the anthologies feature…
Hayley Webster’s debut novel
‘Jar Baby’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Hayley Webster and has just been published by Dexter
Haven Publishing, the first of a three-book deal. Hayley studied English and United States Literature at the University of Essex, graduating with …