‘Infinite Sky’ is the first novel by UEA alumna Chelsey Flood and is published by Simon and Schuster this week. Chelsey (pictured) was born in 1983 in Derby, and obtained a BA in English from the University of Falmouth before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA. She graduated in 2010 as […]
Archives for February 2013
‘Calcutta’ by Amit Chaudhuri
‘Calcutta: Two Years in the City’ is the latest title by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, and offers a memoir of two years (2009–2011) in the city of his birth. It is published this month by Union Books. Amit is the author of five highly acclaimed novels: ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’, ‘Afternoon […]
Four UEA alumni win Escalator awards
Four graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA are among the ten winners of this year’s Escalator Literature Competition, organized by Writers’ Centre Norwich. Megan Bradbury (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2005 and is the current Charles Pick Writing Fellow at UEA. Meghan Purvis graduated from the Poetry MA in 2005 and […]
Erbil, on leaving
George Szirtes writes of music and poetry after attending the Erbil Literature Festival in Iraq.
Debut story collection by Ashley Stokes
‘The Syllabus of Errors: Twelve Stories about Obsession, Loss and Getting in a State’ is the debut collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Ashley Stokes and is published by Unthank Books this month. Ashley was born in Carshalton, Surrey in 1970 and educated at St Anne’s College, Oxford, before joining the UEA MA in […]
Paradise Lost: Confessions of an Apostate Translator
The 2013 Sebald Lecture, by Russian crime writer Boris Akunin (formerly Japanese-Russian translator Grigory Chkhartishvili).
WORTHLESS MEN
An exclusive extract from Andrew Cowan’s new novel ‘Worthless Men’ to celebrate its publication on Valentine’s Day
Balli Jaswal publishes her debut novel, ‘Inheritance’
‘Inheritance’ is the first novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal and is published by Sleepers Publishing in Australia this week. Balli (pictured) was the David TK Wong Writing Fellow at UEA in 2007-08 and began her novel during her time at the university. She grew up in Singapore, Japan, Russia and the Philippines, and studied creative […]
Avril Joy wins Costa Short Story Award
UEA graduate Avril Joy has won the inaugural Costa Short Story Award, worth £3,500, for her story ‘Millie and Bird’. Avril (pictured) gained a BA in History of Art at UEA in 1972, and published her first novel ‘The Sweet Track’ in 2007. She worked for several years as a teacher in HMP Low Newton, […]
THREE POEMS
Three distinct poems by Hayden Westfield-Bell