Eliza Robertson’s debut collection of short stories, ‘Wallflowers’, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in Canada next year. Eliza (pictured) was born in Vancouver and studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2011. She was that year’s recipient of the Booker Foundation […]
Archives for September 2013
‘The Poets’ Daughters’ by Katie Waldegrave
‘The Poets’ Daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge’ is the first book by UEA alumna Katie Waldegrave and is published by Hutchinson this week. Katie (pictured) graduated from the UEA Life Writing MA in 2007 and completed her PhD under the supervision of Kathryn Hughes in 2012. She is a former Head of History at […]
Michael Miller’s new collection of poetry
‘The First Thing Mastered’ is the second collection of poetry by UEA alumnus Michael Miller and is published this month in the USA by Tebot Bach. Michael graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2003 and published his first collection ‘College Town’, also with Tebot Bach, in 2010. He was a poetry judge […]
Sarah Lewis achieves Special Mention in BBC National Short Story Award
‘Healing the State of Man’ by UEA alumnus Sarah Lewis has uniquely been awarded a Special Mention after just missing out on the shortlist of five for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award, which is worth £15,000 to the winner. ‘We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening’ by UEA Professor of Poetry Lavinia Greenlaw is […]
‘Strangers On A Train’ by Craig Warner
‘Strangers On A Train’ by current UEA student Craig Warner is a stage adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith and will be performed at the Gielgud Theatre in London from 2nd November. The production stars Laurence Fox, Jack Huston and Imogen Stubbs and is directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. Craig (pictured) is currently completing […]
‘A Tiny Speck of Black And Then Nothing’ by Emily Midorikawa
‘A Tiny Speck of Black And Then Nothing’ is the first novel by UEA alumna Emily Midorikawa and has achieved third place out of 346 entries in the novel category of the Yeovil Literary Prize, judged by novelist Tracy Chevalier. Emily (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2005 and currently teaches […]
The Novel Cure by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
‘The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies’ is an alternative medical handbook and literary guidebook by UEA alumna Susan Elderkin and her friend Ella Berthoud and has recently been published by Canongate. Ella and Susan (pictured) met as English Literature students at Cambridge University before Susan joined the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1993. […]
Andrew Cowan, Henry Sutton, George Szirtes and Helen Ivory shortlisted for East Anglian Book Award
Four UEA writers have been shortlisted for this year’s East Anglian Book Awards, sponsored by the Eastern Daily Press and Jarrold department store. Andrew Cowan and Henry Sutton are nominated in the Fiction category, judged by the administrator of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Ion Trewin, while George Szirtes and Helen Ivory are nominated […]
Kathryn Simmonds awarded Charles Causley residency
UEA alumna Kathryn Simmonds is to be the inaugural Charles Causley Poet in Residence, based in Launceston, Cornwall, where the late Charles Causley’s house is being renovated for future residencies with assistance from Arts Council England, Cornwall Council, Literature Works and Launceston Town Council. Kathryn (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in […]
Amanda Hodgkinson wins Readers’ Choice Award
’22 Britannia Road’, the debut novel by UEA alumna Amanda Hodgkinson, has been awarded the Readers’ Choice Trophy in association with the New Angle Prize for East Anglian Literature. Amanda (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. The trophy is sponsored by the East Anglian Daily Times, and hers was […]