UEA alumna Lucy Geering has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Word of Mouth Prize for an unpublished manuscript, sponsored by the literary agency Conville & Walsh. Selected from over 1,000 submissions, her novel ‘Palus’ will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and the offer of representation by the agency. Lucy (pictured) gained […]
Archives for April 2015
‘The Fugitives’ by Panos Karnezis
‘The Fugitives’ is the new novel by UEA alumnus Panos Karnezis and is published by Jonathan Cape today. Panos born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000, and published his first collection of short fiction, ‘Little Infamies’, in 2002. […]
Juliana Spahr at UEA Poetry Festival
The American poet Juliana Spahr will be appearing at the inaugural UEA poetry festival this weekend. Recipient of 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize, which honours a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate ‘great imagination and daring’, Juliana (pictured) will be reading at the final event on the evening of 18th April with poet and critic […]
DW Wilson wins CBC Short Story Prize
UEA alumnus DW (Dave) Wilson has been announced as the winner of the 2015 CBC Short Story Prize. He will receive $6,000 and a 10-day residency at the Banff Centre in Canada, and his winning story, Mountain Under Sea, will be published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine. Dave (pictured) was born in British Columbia and […]
Alan Johnson at UEA
Writer and politician Alan Johnson will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday, where he will be reading from his new book ‘Please, Mister Postman’ and talking to UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Henry Sutton about his life and career. Alan Johnson has been a Labour Party MP since 1997. He served […]
‘Normal’ by Faith Ng
Normal is the new play by UEA alumna Faith Ng and will run at the Checkpoint Theatre in Singapore between 9th and 19th April. Faith (pictured) graduated with Distinction from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) in 2013 and now teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore. Her two previous plays, wo(men) (2010) […]
Jonathan Gibbs and Emma Healey longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for the best debut novel of the year. ‘Randall’ by Jonathan Gibbs was published by Galley Beggar Press last year and is included on the longlist of ten with ‘Elizabeth is Missing’ by Emma Healey, which was published by Viking. Jonathan (pictured) […]
‘The Way The Hen Kicks’ by Lars Guthorm Kavli
‘The Way The Hen Kicks’ is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Lars Guthorm Kavli and has recently been published by YouCaxton Publications. Lars was born in Norway in 1977 and lived in Trondheim until moving abroad at the age of 19. He has worked as a media entrepreneur and consultant and graduated from the […]