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 […]
Archives for November 2014
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 […]
‘The Street of Perfect Love’ by Julian Stannard
‘The Street of Perfect Love’ is a new chapbook of poetry by UEA alumnus Julian Stannard and has recently been published by Worple Press. Julian gained his PhD at UEA before joining the University of Winchester, where he teaches English and Creative Writing. He previously taught English and American Literature at the University of Genoa, […]
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure
A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure by C.D. Rose compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. We offer you, gentle reader, the following extract … No. 1: Casimir Adamowitz-Kostrowiki Think, if you […]
‘Who Wants A Rewind?’ by Neil Milton
Who Wants A Rewind?‘ is the debut novel for young adults by UEA alumnus Neil Milton and is published this month. Born in Romford, Neil graduated from the BA in English Literature and Creative Writing in 2002 and is currently training to be a teacher. His website can be found at neilmilton.webs.com.
Extract from THE TOURISTS
Here he comes. Folding the cuff of his black shirt above his wrists so that a pale strip of unburnt skin shows, like a patch of exposed land on a jungle hillside.