Novels by three UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s €100,000 (£71,300) International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Ian McEwan (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1971, is nominated for The Children Act, which was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014. Neel Mukherjee, a graduate of the 2001 Creative Writing MA, […]
Archives for November 2015
#PleaseRetweet by Emily Benet
#PleaseRetweet is the new novel by UEA alumna Emily Benet and is published this week by HarperImpulse. Emily (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2002. Her debut book, Shop Girl Diaries, began as a blog about working in her mother’s chandelier shop and won the CompletelyNovel Author Blog Awards in 2010. Her second book, […]
David Almond shortlisted for Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
A Song For Ella Grey by UEA alumnus David Almond has been shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Published in 2014 by Hodder, A Song For Ella Grey was earlier this year shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. David (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies […]
Julianne Pachico in The New Yorker
Honey Bunny, a short story by UEA writer Julianne Pachico, is featured in this week’s edition of The New Yorker, alongside an interview with the author. The story is one of a collection of linked short stories, The Lucky Ones, that has recently been acquired for publication in 2017 by Faber & Faber in the […]