The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is the first novel by UEA alumna Natasha Pulley and is published by Bloomsbury this week. Natasha (pictured) studied English at Oxford University and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012, after which she completed a nineteen-month Daiwa Fellowship in Tokyo, Japan. Natasha began writing The […]
Archives for June 2015
Emma Healey wins Premio Salerno Libro D’Europa prize
UEA alumna Emma Healey has been awarded Italy’s Premio Salerno Libro D’Europa prize for her debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing. The prize was awarded at the Salerno Literature Festival last week, the day after Emma won a Betty Trask Prize at this year’s Society of Authors awards. Emma graduated from the UEA MA in Creative […]
K.J. Orr, Jonathan Gibbs and Julianne Pachico in Best British Short Stories 2015
Three UEA writers are included in the anthology Best British Short Stories 2015, edited by Nicholas Royle and published by Salt this week. K.J. (Katherine) Orr is included with ‘The Lake Shore Limited’, Jonathan Gibbs with ‘Festschrift’, and Julianne Pachico with two stories, ‘Lucky’ and ‘The Tourists’. Katherine (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative […]
Iain Ross selected for Original British Dramatists 2015
UEA alumnus Iain Ross has been selected for Original British Dramatists 2015, a BBC Radio 4 showcase of five plays by writers new to radio. His play, A Thing Inside A Thing Inside A Thing, was broadcast on June 11th and is currently available on BBC iPlayer. Iain had his first play performed when he […]
Khine Soe Lung awarded Charles Pick South Asia Writing Fellowship
Khine Soe Lung has been selected as the 2015/16 Charles Pick South Asia Writing Fellow at UEA. The fellowship is worth £26,000 and lasts for six months. It is dedicated to the memory of the publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick, and is intended to support the work of a new and as yet unpublished […]
Violet Kupersmith awarded David TK Wong Creative Writing Fellowship
Violet Kupersmith has been selected as the 2015/16 David TK Wong Creative Writing Fellow at UEA. The fellowship is worth £26,000 and lasts for a year. It is named for its sponsor, Mr David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer […]
Mona Arshi shortlisted for Forward Prize
Small Hands, the debut collection by UEA alumna Mona Arshi, has been shortlisted for the 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, which is organized by the Forward Prize and is worth £5,000 to the winner. Mona (pictured) trained as a lawyer and worked for the human rights organization Liberty for several years before […]
Faith Ng selected as a Rising Star by The Straits Times
UEA alumna Faith Ng has been selected by The Straits Times in Singapore as one of 30 rising stars in the arts and media under the age of 30. 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 […]
Molly Naylor, John Osborne and Tom Benn selected for ‘iWrite’
Three UEA alumni have been selected for the Creative England ‘iWrite’ Partnership scheme, which is designed to support emerging writers develop the skills and knowledge required to write for the cinema. Molly Naylor, John Osborne and Tom Benn will participate in an eight-month programme supported by Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre […]