UEA Creative Writing student Claire Griffiths has been included on the shortlist for the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize, which was announced today. Claire (pictured) is nominated for her story, ‘Tata and Mama and Me’. She graduated from the BA in American Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2007, and completed the MA in […]
Archives for July 2014
Neel Mukherjee longlisted for Man Booker Prize
UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee has been included in the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is worth £50,000 to the winner. Neel (pictured) is nominated for his second novel, ‘The Lives of Others’, which was recently published by Chatto & Windus. Neel graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Emma Healey, Owen Sheers, Naomi Wood longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Three UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize, which is worth £30,000 to the winner and is open to any writer of novels, poetry or drama aged 39 (the age that Thomas died) and under. Emma Healey (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011 and […]
‘John the Pupil’ by David Flusfeder
‘John the Pupil’ is the seventh novel by UEA alumnus David Flusfeder and is published by 4th Estate today. David (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1988, and published his first novel, ‘Man Kills Woman’, in 1993. ‘Like Plastic’, published in 1996, was the winner of the 1997 Encore Award for the […]
Short story successes for Michael Amherst, Claire Griffiths, Liz Hambrick and Joanne Hayden.
Three UEA writers have been included in the longlist for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize, announced today. Claire Griffiths graduated from the UEA BA in American Literature with Creative Writing in 2007, completed the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009, and is currently completing her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing. She […]
Ed Parnell wins Rethink New Novels Prize
UEA alumnus Ed Parnell has won the 2014 Rethink New Novels Prize for his debut novel ‘The Listeners’. Ed (pictured) 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 […]
Chelsey Flood wins Branford Boase Award
UEA alumna Chelsey Flood has won this year’s Branford Boase Award for her first novel for young adults, ‘Infinite Sky’, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. Earlier this year Chelsey was also awarded the James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award and was nominated for the The Carnegie Medal and the Leeds Book […]
Owen Sheers wins Wales Book of the Year Award
UEA alumnus Owen Sheers has won this year’s Wales Book of the Year Award for his verse drama, ‘Pink Mist’, which was published by Faber and Faber earlier this year. The book was also awarded the Roland Mathias poetry award. Owen (pictured) previously won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2005 for his […]
Life and Death
An excerpt from Kathryn Simmonds’ debut novel, Love and Fallout, set against the backdrop of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp protests of the early eighties.
Scam 2.0
This extracted chapter from Robinson’s The Buyer finds the narrator, David Medway, working late in the offices of his corporate employer.