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Archives for 2015
Iain AJ Ross longlisted for Imison Award
UEA alumnus Iain AJ Ross has been longlisted for the Imison Award for the best original script by a writer new to radio. He was selected earlier this year for Original British Dramatists 2015, a BBC Radio 4 showcase of five plays by writers new to radio. His Imison-nominated play, A Thing Inside A Thing […]
Sam Buchan-Watts announced as a Faber New Poet for 2016
UEA alumnus Sam Buchan-Watts has been announced as a Faber New Poet for 2015-16. Sam (pictured) was born in London in 1989 and studied English Literature at Goldsmiths before completing his MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA last year. He has just begun a PhD on contemporary poetry at York University. He is a co-editor of […]
Lynne Bryan and Bel Greenwood shortlisted for Women in Publishing Award
Two UEA Creative Writing alumnae, Lynne Bryan and Bel Greenwood, have been shortlisted for this year’s Women in Publishing New Venture Award, which recognizes ‘pioneering work on behalf of under-represented groups in society’. They have been nominated for their work with Words and Women, an organization that promotes writing by women in the Eastern region. […]
Napoleon’s Other Wife by Deborah Jay
Napoleon’s Other Wife is the first biography by UEA alumna Deborah Jay and has just been published by Rosa’s Press. Deborah worked for fifteen years as a lawyer before completing an MA in Technical and Specialised Translation in Portuguese, French and Italian. She subsequently worked as a reader for the publisher, William Heinemann, and taught […]
Neel Mukherjee shortlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The Lives of Others, the second novel by UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee, has been shortlisted for the $50,000 (£33,000) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Published by Chatto & Windus last year, The Lives of Others was shortlisted for both the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was the winner earlier […]
Anne Enright wins Irish Novel of the Year Award
The Green Road, the latest novel by UEA alumna Anne Enright, has been named as the Irish Novel of the Year (also known as the Eason Book Club Novel of the Year) at the 2015 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Anne (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987. Her first […]
David Almond wins Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
A Song for Ella Grey by UEA alumnus David Almond has been announced as the winner of this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. A retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in north-east England, the novel was published by Hodder in 2014 and was earlier this year shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA […]
Anne Enright and Tasha Kavanagh shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards
Novels by UEA alumnae Anne Enright and Tasha Kavanagh have been shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Book Awards. Anne Enright is nominated for the Costa Novel Award for The Green Road, published Jonathan Cape, while Tasha Kavanagh is nominated for the Costa First Novel Award for Things We Have in Common, published by Canongate. Tasha […]
David Mitchell at UEA
The novelist David Mitchell will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday evening, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby about his career and his new novel Slade House. Mitchell (pictured) is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de […]