This piece is featured from this year’s Worlds festival. Also on site, from the provocations we have: Vesna Goldsworthy’s ‘How to Become, and Remain, a Writer’, and Sigitas Parulskis’ ‘The Street Without a Name‘. I’m going to talk today about Gabriele d’Annunzio, who was the subject of my latest book. I haven’t misunderstood the brief. […]
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The street without a name
Translated by Romas Kinka with the support of the Lithuanian Culture Institute, this piece is featured from this year’s Worlds festival. Also on site, from the provocations we have: Vesna Goldsworthy’s ‘How to Become, and Remain, a Writer’, and Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s ‘The Art of Life-Making’. The very first word which comes to mind when thinking about […]
How to become, and remain, a writer
This piece is featured from this year’s Worlds festival. Also on site, from the provocations we have: Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s ‘The Art of Life-Making’ and Sigitas Parulskis’ ‘The Street Without a Name‘. Autobiographia Literaria (with apologies to Coleridge and Frank O’Hara) “Between the ages of four and twenty-four I wrote poetry every day. It is debatable […]
Five UEA alumni nominated for Edinburgh First Book Award
Books by five alumni of the UEA Creative Writing programme have been longlisted for the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award. The winner will be chosen by public vote and announced in the autumn. The selected writers are Tim Clare (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and […]
Tom Moran named as BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum winner
UEA alumnus Tom Moran is one of three winners of this year’s BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum for his sitcom, Printheads. The prize culminates in a showcase at the New York Television Festival, where professional actors will perform his script live. Tom (pictured) graduated from UEA in 2009 with a BA in Scriptwriting and […]
Gavin McCrea, Katherine Norbury and Sara Taylor longlisted for Guardian First Book Award
Books by three recent UEA graduates have been included on the longlist of ten titles in contention for this year’s Guardian First Book Award. Gavin McCrea is selected for ‘Mrs Engels’, his debut novel published by Scribe in April. Gavin graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and gained his PhD […]
Rob Magnuson Smith shortlisted for Jolley Prize
UEA alumnus Rob Magnuson Smith is one of three authors shortlisted for the 2015 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. His story ‘The Elector of Nossnearly’ was selected from 1,200 entries for the prize, which is work a total of $8,000. The winner will be announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 4th […]
Eight UEA alumni nominated for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize
Eight books by UEA alumni have been included on the longlist for The Guardian’s annual Not The Booker Prize. All the nominated novels, as well as the eventual winner, are selected by readers of the newspaper. The seven titles are: Acts of the Assassins (Vintage) by Richard Beard (MA 1995), The Longest Fight (Myriad) by […]
UEA launches British Archive for Contemporary Writing
UEA has today announced the launch of the British Archive for Contemporary Writing (BACW), which contains the extensive personal archive of the Nobel Laureate, Doris Lessing, and literary material from other prominent authors such as Naomi Alderman, Tash Aw, Malcolm Bradbury, Amit Chaudhuri, J.D. Salinger, Roger Deakin, Lorna Sage (pictured), WG Sebald and the playwright […]
Sue Healy on BBC Radio 4
‘Mussels’, a new short story by UEA alumna Sue Healy, is one of the final three selected for this year’s BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition and will be broadcast at 7.45 this evening. Read by Ballykissangel actress Dervla Kirwan, it will be available on BBC iPlayer throughout August. Sue (pictured) graduated from the Creative […]