‘Before the Fire’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Sarah Butler and is published this week by Picador. Sarah graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2003 and runs UrbanWords, a consultancy that develops literature projects engaging with regeneration and urban renewal. She has also held residencies at Great Ormond Street hospital, and […]
Archives for March 2015
Robert Macfarlane at UEA
Nature writer Robert Macfarlane will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday, where he will be reading from his new book ‘Landmarks’ and talking to UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Steve Waters about his life and career. Macfarlane is the winner of numerous awards including the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset […]
The Fish Ladder
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie – with the idea of following a […]
A History of Violence – the work of David Vann
‘I didn’t know there’d be so much therapy!’ David Vann sits back and laughs. As does Chris Bigsby, his interviewer for the UEA Literary Festival event, where Vann has made a relatively rare UK appearance. It is a typical Vann response: candid, self-effacing, laced with ironic humour. This is not an author who seeks to […]
Eluned Gramich wins New Welsh Writing Award
UEA alumna Eluned Gramich has won the inaugural New Welsh Writing Award for her essay Scenes from a Hokkaidan Life, a memoir of her stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan during her time as a Daiwa Scholar in 2012. She was presented with the £1,000 prize by judge Mark […]
‘Goldfish Memory’ translated by Eluned Gramich
‘Goldfish Memory’ is a translation by UEA Creative Writing alumna Eluned Gramich of a German short story collection called ‘Goldfischgedaechtnis’ by Monique Schwitter. It is published in the UK by Parthian Books this month. Eluned (pictured) completed a BA in English at Oxford University in 2010 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose […]
‘The Buried Giant’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
‘The Buried Giant’ is the new novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro and is published by Faber and Faber this week. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of six previous novels: ‘A Pale View of Hills’ (1982), which won the Winifred Holtby Prize; ‘An Artist of the […]
Rachel Cusk at UEA
Novelist Rachel Cusk will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday, where she will be reading from her new book ‘Landmarks’ and talking to UEA Director of Creative Writing Andrew Cowan about her life and career. Rachel (pictured) is the author of eight novels and three memoirs. She was the winner of the […]
Ten UEA writers selected for ‘Words and Women: Two’
UEA graduates number almost half the writers selected for ‘Words and Women: Two’, the second annual collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England, which is published by Unthank Books on March 8th to coincide with International Women’s Day. The volume – which contains memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction – is […]