Child Psychologist The boy placed his glass of water on the centre of my desk, touched the thin meniscus and said It feels like this then pushed his finger through the water’s skin. I noted the refraction, his finger enlarged and broken. In retirement I remember this, and dream of flies […]
Archives for January 2013
GRETA
It was the middle of the night when Greta woke up, feeling as if an invisible weight was pressing down on her in bed; a bulky weight, far heavier than the skimpy blanket which covered her.
Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby by Owen Sheers
‘Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby’ is the latest title by UEA alumnus Owen Sheers and documents his year as Writer in Residence for the Welsh Rugby Union. It is published by Faber and Faber this week. Owen graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998 and published his first […]
Toby Litt, Adam Foulds, Mark McNay and CD Rose longlisted for world’s richest short story award
A quarter of the nominees for this year’s £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story are graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA. Chosen from over 500 entries, the longlist includes stories by Toby Litt, Adam Foulds, Mark McNay and CD Rose. Toby Litt, who graduated from the MA in 1995, is selected for […]
SEEDS
An excerpt from a novel-in-progress by Dennison Smith
FOUR POEMS
Four poems by Eleanor Stewart, in which the theme of nature leads to much more.
GOING FOR GOLD
Brendan Connor has seen Olympians winning medals and fancies some glory for himself.
SHRIEKING GULLS
The duck boards over the mud flats were precarious, just a collection of haphazardly placed planks stretching all the way from the rail track to the pumping station.
BAD MACHINE
Three poems from T.S. Eliot prize winner George Szirtes’ lyrical and innovative new collection, Bad Machine.
DARLING
You’re walking around the lake. It’s a beautiful day. The sun is out, shining benevolently over the willow trees around the greenish flat water.