Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize. Neel Mukherjee is nominated for his second novel ‘The Lives of Others’ (Chatto & Windus) and Sandra Newman for her third novel ‘The Country of Ice Cream Star’ (Chatto & Windus). Neel graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001 and […]
Archives for 2014
The Listeners
An excerpt from The Listeners, winner of the Rethink New Novels Competition, 2014.
David Almond shortlisted for inaugural YA Book Prize
‘A Song For Ella Grey’ by UEA alumnus David Almond has been shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize, which is sponsored by Movellas and is worth £2,000 to the winner. The book was published earlier this year by Hodder. David graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies in 1973 […]
David Almond shortlisted for inaugural YA Book Prize
‘A Song For Ella Grey’ by UEA alumnus David Almond has been shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize, which is sponsored by Movellas and is worth £2,000 to the winner. The book was published earlier this year by Hodder. David graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies in 1973 […]
Jeremy Page longlisted for International Impac Dublin literary award.
UEA alumnus Jeremy Page has been nominated for the 2015 International Impac Dublin literary award for his novel ‘The Collector of Lost Things’, which was published by Little Brown last year. Jeremy (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1994 and returned to UEA as a Writing Fellow in 2010 and as a tutor […]
Yewande Omotoso wins Morland Writing Scholarship
UEA’s inaugural Etisalat African Writing Fellow Yewande Omotoso has been awarded a Morland Writing Scholarship worth £18,000 to allow her to write her next novel. Yewande (pictured) is currently at UEA on a four-month fellowship established and sponsored by the international telecommunications company Etisalat. She was born in Barbados, grew up in Nigeria, and currently […]
Thomas Morris and John Boyne among prizewinners at Irish Book Awards
UEA alumni John Boyne and Thomas Morris have won prizes at this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Thomas (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012 and won The Journal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year Award as the editor of ‘Dubliners 100’, which was published earlier this year […]
‘The Listeners’ by Edward Parnell
‘The Listeners’ is the first novel by UEA alumnus Edward Parnell and has just been published by Rethink Press. Edward graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2007 and was one of that year’s ten Escalator Award winners, funded by the Arts Council. In 2009 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling […]
Tiffany Atkinson wins Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize
UEA’s new Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) has been announced as the winner of the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2014, which is worth £10,000. Medicine Unboxed is a national project to connect the practice of medicine with ethical, aesthetic and emotional discourses more usually associated with the Arts and Humanities. Tiffany’s entry, a collection of […]
‘A Little in Love’ by Susan Fletcher
A Little in Love’ is a new novel for young adults by UEA alumna Susan Fletcher and has recently been published by Chicken House. Susan (pictured) was born in Birmingham in 1979 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 2002. Her first novel, ‘Eve Green’, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Betty […]