UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection for her debut poetry collection Small Hands, which was published by Liverpool University Press earlier this year. The award is organized by the Forward Prize and is worth £5,000. Mona (pictured) trained as a lawyer […]
Archives for September 2015
An epistolary experience
I never intended to write an epistolary novel. In fact, I tried very hard not to. I played with a multitude of character voices and perspectives…
How You See Me
An extract from Craythorne’s new epistolary novel available now from Myriad Editions.
Jonathan Franzen at UEA
American novelist Jonathan Franzen will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Tuesday, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby and give a reading from his new novel Purity. Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and is the author of four previous novels: The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), The […]
This Is Kandinsky by Annabel Howard
This Is Kandinsky, a graphic biography of the Russian-born artist, is the first book by UEA alumnus Annabel Howard and is published this week by Laurence King. Annabel (pictured) attended Christ Church College, Oxford before graduating from the MA in Lifewriting at UEA in 2010. She is currently working on a collection of interlinked essays […]
Emma Healey and Vendela Vida at UEA literary festival
UEA alumna Emma Healey and American novelist Vendela Vida will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday, when they will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby and give readings from their work. Emma graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011 and published her first novel Elizabeth is […]
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
Rawblood is the debut novel by UEA alumna Catriona Ward and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Catriona was born in Washington DC and grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA […]
If Then by Matthew De Abaitua
If Then is the new novel by UEA alumnus Matthew De Abaitua and was published earlier this month by Angry Robots Books. Matthew was born in Liverpool in 1971 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1994, after which he lived and worked as Will Self’s amanuensis in a remote cottage in Suffolk. Matthew’s first novel, […]
Life Support
A hospital where even the vending machine doesn’t work. She’d have seen it as a bad omen, if she’d believed in such things. Which she didn’t.
Death by hunger
For a long time, I don’t even remember how long, I’ve lived in abstract places.