Chloe L Yeoh is the inaugural recipient of the Bryan Heiser Memorial Bursary to undertake the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. The bursary is worth £1,000 and is dedicated to the memory of MA alumnus Bryan Heiser, who died of polio in 2013, aged 67. Bryan, who joined the MA in 2009, was […]
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Mahreen Sohail joins UEA as Charles Pick Writing Fellow
Mahreen Sohail has been announced as one of this year’s two Charles Pick South Asia Writing Fellows at UEA and will be joining the Creative Writing programme this week. Mahreen (pictured) graduated with an M.F.A from Sarah Lawrence College in the USA, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. She moved back to Pakistan in […]
Rose Tremain shortlisted for BBC National Short Story Award
‘The American Lover’ by UEA alumna Rose Tremain has been shortlisted for the 2014 BBC National Short Story Award. Rose (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English in 1967. During her degree she was taught by both Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury, and later returned to the university to teach alongside Bradbury on […]
‘Our Lady of the Nile’ translated by Melanie Mauthner
UEA alumna Melanie Mauthner has translated ‘Our Lady of the Nile’, the first novel by Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga, which was originally published by Gallimard in France in 2012. The translation is published by Archipelago Books of New York. Melanie graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2007, having previously […]
Lindsey Fairweather selected for IdeasTap Inspires WCN competition
UEA alumna Lindsey Fairweather is one of ten young writers selected for the 2014 IdeasTap Inspires Writers’ Centre Norwich Creative writing Competition and will receive six months of professional development and mentoring. Selected by a panel of judges and mentors – writers Daniel Hahn, Kerry Hudson, Alex Preston, Amy Sackville and Nicola Upson – from […]
‘A History of Loneliness’ by John Boyne
A History of Loneliness’ is the latest novel by UEA alumnus John Boyne and has just been published in the UK by Doubleday. John was born in Dublin in 1971, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin before joining the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1994, when he was awarded the Curtis […]
Adam Foulds and Emily Berry named as Next Generation Poets
UEA alumnus Adam Foulds and current PhD student Emily Berry have been named by the Poetry Book Society as being among the best 20 emerging poets from the UK and Ireland to have published a first collection within the last 10 years. The list of Next Generation poets, which is supported by the Arts Council […]
Short Story successes for Tim Harding and KJ Orr
UEA alumnus Tim Harding has been shortlisted for The Moth International Short Story Prize 2014 for his story ‘The Sad Mans Club’. Tim graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and is currently working on his first novel. A new short story by KJ (Katherine) Orr, ‘The Lake Shore Limited’, was […]
Neel Mukherjee shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is worth £50,000 to the winner. Neel is nominated for his second novel, ‘The Lives of Others’, which was recently published by Chatto & Windus. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001 and published his first […]
Owen Sheers and Naomi Wood shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Two graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA have been included on the longlist for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize, which is for authors aged 39 or under and is worth 30,000 to the winner. Owen Sheers graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998 and is nominated for his drama ‘Mametz’, […]