Current UEA student Krishan Coupland has been placed second in the inaugural Poetry Book Society Student Poetry Competition for his poem ‘3:46PM’. He was also Highly Commended for another poem, ‘Emergency Exit’. Krishan (pictured) joined UEA this year as a part-time student on the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA, having achieved First Class Honours in […]
Archives for February 2013
Toby Litt and Ali Smith shortlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award
UEA alumnus Toby Litt and current UNESCO City of Literature Visiting Professor Ali Smith have been shortlisted for this year’s Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Toby (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the 2003 Granta list of Best of Young British […]
‘Five Star Billionaire’ by Tash Aw
‘Five Star Billionaire’ is the third novel by UEA graduate Tash Aw and is published by Fourth Estate this week. Tash (pictured) was born in Taipei to Malaysian parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. His first novel ‘The Harmony Silk […]
Janice Okoh at the Royal Exchange
‘Three Birds’ by UEA playwright Janice Okoh will receive its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre in London this month before transferring to the Bush Theatre in London from 20 March – 20 April. Janice (pictured) graduated from the Scriptwriting strand of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing in 2008. Her previous works include ‘Egusi […]
Jane Monson, Colette Sensier and Tim Clare succeed in Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
Three UEA writers have won prizes in the 2012 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by acclaimed poet Ian Duhig. Jane Monson (pictured) was awarded second prize in the competition for her prose poem ‘Beam of Light’. Jane graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2000 and subsequently gained a PhD in […]
Q & A WITH TOP THRILLER WRITER LEE CHILD
UEA’s Masters in Creative Writing students recently enjoyed a private audience with one of the world’s most successful thriller writers, Lee Child.
CONSCIOUSNESS, CHARACTER – AND CONSCIENCE – IN THE NOVEL
Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady is – along with Wings of the Dove – his most morally searching novel.
Three UEA writers nominated for the New Angle Prize for Literature
Three graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA have been longlisted for the third biennial New Angle Prize for Literature. The award is worth £2,000 to the winner (and £500 for the runner-up) and celebrates fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction set in or inspired by the East Anglian region. Esther Morgan graduated from the MA […]
INFINITE SKY
An exclusive extract from Chelsey Flood’s new Young Adult novel, Infinite Sky
‘Worthless Men’ by Andrew Cowan
‘Worthless Men’ is the new novel by UEA Director of Creative Writing, Andrew Cowan, and is published by Sceptre this week. Andrew is the author of four previous novels. ‘Pig’ won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Sunday […]