The thick walls of her house closed in on Khalamma like the bunkers her husband described. A freezing wind blowing from the darkest corner brought in the stench of dead rats.
Archives for January 2015
‘Etta and Otto and Russel and James’ by Emma Hooper
‘Etta and Otto and Russel and James’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Emma Hooper and is published this week in the UK by Fig Tree. Emma (pictured) was born in Canada and moved to England in 2004 after completing her BA in Music and Writing at the University of Alberta. She took an […]
Sadness triumphs at last
At times
I even found her in bed
between my husband and myself.
Looking in at the window
Whenever she is alone, and the whole house is empty, when everyone is away…
Introducing the UEA Creative Writing Anthologies, 2014
When my brother was around sixteen a couple of his friends had a baby. It wasn’t exactly a planned pregnancy. One day my brother ran into the father in the supermarket. He was wheeling a pram containing a yowling infant. ‘Want a baby?’ he inquired sheepishly. ‘It’s fresh.’ Just after I graduated I lived in […]
UEA Creative Writing MA: Poetry Anthology 2014
New voices from the UEA Creative Writing MA in Poetry introduced by Sophie Robinson.
UEA Creative Writing MA: Creative Non-Fiction Anthology 2014
This year’s non-fiction writers have proved themselves enthusiastic travellers in both time and space. In this anthology you’ll find pieces set in Japan, Poland and Egypt together with explorations of the 18th Century art world, 19th century boarding schools and battle tactics from the 1940s. Even the occasional stay-at-home author takes flight into a parallel […]
The System of Locks
An extract from a novel.
UEA Creative Writing MA: Prose Fiction Anthology 2014
If there’s one word that best sums up the 2013/14 academic and its extraordinary cohort, it is optimism. Now, this is a word that doesn’t often feature in creative writing or in literary circles more broadly. At the moment fiction publishing in the UK, as much as elsewhere, is undergoing great structural change – digitisation, […]
UEA Creative Writing MA: Scriptwriting Anthology 2014
‘Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.’ In I Remember, I Remember, Philip Larkin reminds us of the intimate connection between action, place and memory; between what happens, where it happens, and how it is remembered. Or, in his elegant paradox, nothing happens. (Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot was famously reviewed in similarly paradoxical terms following its […]