‘All True Not A Lie In It’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Alix Hawley and is published by Knopf Canada this week. Alix was born in Vancouver in 1975 and gained a BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia before completing her M.St and PhD at Oxford University. She graduated […]
Archives for February 2015
Helen Cross joins UEA
UEA alumna Helen Cross has joined UEA this semester as a Writing Fellow and will be teaching on the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA, from which she graduated in 1997. Helen (pictured) is the author of three novels. My Summer of Love was published in 2001 and won a Betty Trask Award in 2002. The […]
‘Scorper’ by Rob Magnusson Smith
‘Scorper’ is the new novel by UEA graduate Rob Magnusson Smith as is published by Granta this week. Rob (pictured) gained a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2009. He was that year’s recipient of the David Higham […]
‘Kim Kardashian’s Marriage’ by Sam Riviere
‘Kim Kardashian’s Marriage’ is the new collection of poetry by Sam Riviere and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Initially available only online for 72 days, it contains 72 poems, 72 being the number of days that Kim Kardashian’s marriage lasted in 2011. Sam began writing poetry at the Norwich School of Art […]
Louise Doughty, Julianne Pachico and Erin Soros longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award
Three UEA writers have been included in the longlist for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, worth £30,000 to the winner. Louise Doughty is selected for ‘Fat White Cop with Ginger Eyebrows’, Julianne Pachico for ‘Lucky’, and Erin Soros for ‘Still Water, BC’. Louise graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 […]
‘Reading the World’ by Ann Morgan
‘Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer’ is the first book by UEA alumna Ann Morgan and is published this week by Harvill Secker. Ann (pictured) graduated from Cambridge University with a first-class degree in English literature and subsequently worked as a Campaigns Officer for the architectural history charity, the Victorian Society. She graduated […]
‘Odysseus Abroad’ by Amit Chaudhuri
‘Odysseus Abroad’ is the new novel by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature Amit Chaudhuri and is published by Oneworld this week. Amit is the author of five other highly acclaimed novels: ‘A Strange and Sublime Address’, ‘Afternoon Raag’, ‘Freedom Song’, ‘A New World’, and ‘The Immortals’. He is also a poet, a musician, and a […]