UEA alumna Chelsey Flood has been shortlisted for this year’s Angus Book Award for her first novel for young adults, Infinite Sky, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. Earlier this year Chelsey won the Branford Boase Award, the James Reckitt Hull Children’s Book Award, and was nominated for the The Carnegie Medal […]
Archives for November 2014
Emma Healey, Neel Mukherjee and Monique Roffey shortlisted for Costa Book Awards
Three UEA alumni have been shortlisted for this year’s Costa Book Awards. Nominated for the Novel Award are Neel Mukherjee for The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus) and Monique Roffey for House of Ashes (Simon and Schuster), while Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) by Emma Healey is shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Neel […]
Two Poems
Every time I step outside I bang my soul on an osteopath…
‘The Tourists’ by Julianne Pachico
‘The Tourists’ is a special edition short story by Julianne Pachico and is published by Daunt Books this month. Julianne grew up in Colombia and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012. She was subsequently awarded a UEA scholarship to undertake a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing, and is […]
UEA Creative Writing anthologies 2014
The latest UEA Creative Writing anthologies have just been published, showcasing new work by over sixty recent graduates of the MA in the Creative Writing. Published in four volumes representing the four strands of the MA – Prose Fiction, Poetry, Scriptwriting, Biography & Creative Non-Fiction – the anthologies are edited by the students themselves and […]
Katherine Swinson commended in Bridport Prize
Recent UEA graduate Katherine Swinson has been highly commended in this year’s Bridport Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Repeat After Me’. The prize is worth £5,000 to the winner and Katherine was nominated for her poem ‘Repeat After Me’. Katherine (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative (Poetry) this year, and has since returned […]
‘Life-Like’ by Toby Litt
‘Life-Like’ is the new book of short stories by UEA alumnus Toby Litt and has just been published by Seagull Press. Toby graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the 2003 Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists. He is the author of nine novels […]
Interview with John Boyne
Exclusive interview with UEA’s Creative Writing Fellow and author of A History of Loneliness, John Boyne.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH EMMA HEALEY
Shortly after her standing room only appearance at UEA Live, Emma Healey took some time out to answer some questions.
‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure’ by C.D. Rose
‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure’ is the first full-length work by UEA alumnus C.D. Rose and contains fifty-two short biographies of writers who leave their manuscripts on trains, light them on fire, or are never recognized for their genius, based on a blog of the same name. It is published this week by Melville […]