‘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, […]
Archives for 2014
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.
Chelsey Flood shortlisted for Angus Book Award
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 […]
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 […]