UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been named as the joint-winner (with Michael Hudson) of the poetry category of the 2014 Manchester Writing Competition, which is worth £10,000 and is organized by Manchester Metropolitan University in association with the Manchester Literature Festival. Mona (pictured) trained as a lawyer and worked for the human rights organization Liberty […]
Archives for 2014
The Han Children of Kürti
There were ten or so Han kids in Kürti, and there was no Chinese school for them, so for a while they all ran loose in the village.
Two-Bit Lives
When people chase their ideals into their thirties, forties or fifties they become something ridiculous, like a deranged chicken.
The Grave with the Red Flowers
Someone up there seemed to enjoy making things difficult for the living but got along with the dead just fine.
John Boyne joins UEA Creative Writing programme
The internationally bestselling novelist John Boyne has joined the UEA Creative Writing programme this semester to teach on the Prose Fiction MA. John (pictured) was born in Dublin in 1971, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin before joining the UEA MA as a student in 1994, when he was awarded the Curtis Brown […]
‘A Week In Paris’ by Rachel Hore
‘A Week In Paris’ is the seventh novel by UEA tutor in Creative Writing Rachel Hore and has just been published by Simon and Schuster. Rachel (pictured) worked in publishing for several years before joining UEA and teaches the Publishing module that leads to the production of the annual anthology of work by UEA Creative […]
‘The Surfacing’ by Cormac James
‘The Surfacing’ is the second novel by UEA alumnus Cormac James and has recently been published by Sandstone Press. Cormac was born and grew up in Cork, Ireland, and since 2002 has lived in Montpellier, France. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1994 and published his first novel, ‘Track and Field’, […]
Jack Wang joins UEA as David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow
Jack Wang has been announced as the 2014-15 David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow at UEA and will be joining the Creative Writing programme this week. Jack (pictured) was born in Taiwan and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He earned a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, […]
Tiffany Atkinson joins UEA as a Professor of Creative Writing
he poet and critic Tiffany Atkinson has joined UEA as a Professor of Creative Writing and Convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). Tiffany (pictured) gained a PhD in Critical Theory from Cardiff University before moving to Aberystwyth University to lecture in English Literature and Creative Writing. She is the author of three poetry […]
Yewande Omotoso joins UEA as Etisalat Fellow
Novelist Yewande Omotoso has joined UEA on a four-month fellowship established and sponsored by the international telecommunications company Etisalat. The fellowship is intended to celebrate new African fiction, encouraging upcoming African writers while supporting the African publishing industry. Yewande (pictured) was born in Barbados, grew up in Nigeria and currently lives in Johannesburg. She trained as […]