New work announcing the arrival of the 2012 UEA Charles Pick South Asian Writing Fellow
Archives for October 2012
After Raisin
Translated by Louise Øhrstrøm and Philip Langeskov, an excerpt from Louise’s 2010 novel
One Thing About Robert Mapplethorpe
New work from the 2012 UEA Charles Pick Fellow, former UEA BA and MA graduate, Megan Bradbury
Real Gone
A piece from the 2012/13 recipient of the UEA Booker Scholarship now undertaking the MA in Prose Fiction at UEA.
Sam Riviere wins Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
UEA writer Sam Riviere has been announced as the winner of this year’s £5,000 Felix Dennis Prize for his debut collection of poetry, ’81 Austerities’, which was published earlier this year by Faber and Faber. Sam (pictured) was born in 1981 …
New play by Steve Waters on BBC Radio 4
‘The Air Gap’ is a new one-hour play for radio by UEA lecturer in Creative Writing, Steve Waters. Based on the story of US soldier Bradley Manning, who leaked classified information about US operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks, the play stars Greg …
Amit Chaudhuri and Marina Warner to teach UEA Creative Writing course in India
UEA is to launch an international writing programme in India next spring with an eight-day course for twenty-four students. The course, which is intended for students who wish to develop as writers of prose fiction, will be taught through intensive…
Timberlake Wertenbaker and Ali Smith join UEA
The Olivier award-winning playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker and Booker-shortlisted novelist Ali Smith are to join the UEA Creative Writing
programme as the inaugural UNESCO City of Literature visiting professors. They will each spend a semester wo…
Carrie Chandler shortlisted for Biographers’Club Prize
Current UEA research student Carrie Chandler has been shortlisted for the 2012 Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize, which rewards the best
proposal by an unpublished, first-time biographer and is worth £2,000 to the winner. Carrie (pictured) gra…