I know that when the time comes you’ll seek me out. Like the great explorers, you’ll trace my every step.
Archives for December 2013
From Script to Prose – A Profile of Craig Warner
Craig Warner, playwright, talks on writing disciplines with Paula Cocozza.
Margaret Atwood and James Lasdun to join the UEA Creative Writing programme
Multi-award winning authors Margaret Atwood and James Lasdun are to join the UEA Creative Writing programme in the new year as UNESCO City of Literature visiting professors. They will each spend the spring semester at the university helping students to develop their creative writing through a series of masterclasses and individual tutorials. Both writers will […]
Mona Arshi placed second in Troubadour International Poetry Prize
‘Bad Day In The Office’ by UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been placed second in this year’s Troubadour International Poetry Prize, which is worth £2,500 to the winner. Mona (pictured) won the Magma Poetry Competiton in 2012 for her poem ‘Hummingbird’ and is one of ten poets selected for ‘The Complete Works’, an Arts Council […]
UEA alumni nominated for Carnegie Medal
Five titles by four UEA alumni have been nominated for the 2014 Carnegie Medal, which is administered by CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a […]
Nine things we learned from Kazuo Ishiguro
Nine pieces of writing advice from Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Booker Prize.
K.J. Orr and Toby Litt in Spread the Word Prize anthology
New fiction by two UEA graduates is included in ‘Edgeways’, a collection of the best short stories from this year’s Spread the Word Short Story Prize. The collection is edited by Courttia Newland, and is the first publication from Flight Press, the publishing imprint of the literature development agency Spread the Word. Toby Litt (pictured) […]
UEA140 Launches
Anealla Safdar, curator of UEA140Story, introduces the project and requests submissions.
A Strange and Sublime Process – Aesthetic choices in fiction
Jean McNeil explores aesthetic choices in fiction writing, with reference to Amit Chaudhuri and his novel A Strange and Sublime Address.
‘Barcelona’ by Philip Langeskov
‘Barcelona’, a long short story by UEA writer Philip Langeskov, has just been published as a limited edition by Daunt Books. Philip was born in Copenhagen in 1976. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose) at UEA in 2009, when he was that year’s recipient of the David Higham Award, and recently completed […]