Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Etisalat Prize For Literature for her debut novel ‘We Need New Names’. In addition to a cash prize of £15,000 and a three-city book tour in Africa, she will receive a four-month fellowship at UEA, where she will be mentored by UEA […]
Archives for February 2014
‘The Well’s End’ by Seth Fishman
‘The Well’s End’ is the first novel – a thriller for young adults – by UEA alumnus Seth Fishman and is published by Putnam this week. Seth was born and raised in Texas and graduated from Princeton University before joining the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004. Since graduation in 2005 he […]
Margaret Atwood at UEA Literary Festival
UEA’s rolling international literary festival continues this evening with Margaret Atwood in conversation with novelist and UEA Director of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan. Margaret (pictured) joined UEA this semester as a UNESCO City of Literature visiting professor, helping students to develop their novel writing skills through a series of masterclasses. She is the author of […]
SEVEN QUESTIONS: MARGARET ATWOOD
Anealla Safdar, current MA in Creative Writing student at UEA, interviews UNESCO Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Margaret Atwood.
Private View
Friday evening and the city squirmed after work. Suited men and straight skirted women hubbubed at the corner doors of pubs. Restaurants buzzed and sizzled, waiters all young and really something else, and everyone on their way, coming and going. Beer and wine and water all fizzed, and coke went the way of all coke. […]
Welcome
Welcome to my tree home. You can leave your walking stick propped there against the trunk. Go ahead and take off your flip-flops; it’s easier to scramble up if your feet are bare. Watch out for those nails; if you’re not careful they’ll tear a hole in your clothes. You can sit here next to […]
The Best Key Lime Pie Ever
INT. DINER – DAY. An old-fashioned American diner. Booths with wooden tables and naugahyde upholstered benches…
The Life and Loves of Lucy Locket
Foreword The following is an extract from a collection of biographies that document the lives of famous nursery rhyme characters that lived and worked in eighteenth-century Covent Garden. It is taken from the introduction of a section that discusses the protagonists of the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket. Extract From the Life and Loves of […]
Four UEA students in inaugural issue of MISO magazine
Four UEA Creative Writing Students are included in the first issue of MISO magazine. In addition to an interview with Forward Prize-winning poet Emily Berry, who recently began her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA, there is new work by Krishan Coupland, a current student on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
THE EYE OF THE DAY
An extract from The Eye of the Day (HarperCollins Canada, 2014) by UEA Creative Writing MA graduate, Dennison Smith.