The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright has been longlisted in the adult category of this year’s Independent Bookseller Week Book Awards. Anne (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1987. Her debut collection of short stories, The Portable Virgin, was published in 1991 and was the winner of the Rooney Prize. […]
Archives for March 2016
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott wins Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award
A recent graduate the UEA/Guardian Creative Writing course, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, has won the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a first novel. Kelleigh, pictured, won the award for Swan Song, which she developed during a six-month UEA/Guardian masterclass led by the novelist and UEA alumnus James Scudamore. Kelleigh was born and raised in Houston, Texas, […]
Gavin McCrea shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Mrs Engles, the debut novel by UEA alumnus Gavin McCrea, has been shortlisted for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner. Each of the six shortlisted authors receives £1,000. Gavin holds a BA and an MA from University College Dublin, and completed his MA in Creative Writing […]
Paul Murray shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
The Mark And The Void, the third novel by UEA alumnus Paul Murray, has been shortlisted for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Paul graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001 and published his first novel An Evening Of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for […]
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil
Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir is the latest work by UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Jean McNeil and has just been published by ECW Press in North America. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Jean is the co-Director of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) and the author of ten previous books, including four […]
Oranges and haiku
Matsuyama, haiku city, hopes to become Japan’s first UNESCO City of Literature.
Alex Pheby shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize
Playthings, the second novel by UEA alumnus Alex Pheby, has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, which is awarded annually to the best new work of fiction or non-fiction with a central theme that ‘engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness’. Alex (pictured) graduated with a PhD in Creative & Critical […]
Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright shortlisted for British Book Industry Awards
Novels by two UEA alumni have been shortlisted in the Novel category of the inaugural British Book Industry Awards. Kazuo Ishiguro (pictured), who graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1980, is nominated The Buried Giant, which was published by Faber & Faber last year and shortlisted for the Blackwell’s Book of the Year […]
Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson
Every Little Sound is the debut collection of poetry by UEA alumnus Ruby Robinson and has just been published by Pavilion Poetry, an imprint of Liverpool University Press. Ruby was born in Manchester in 1985 gained a BA in English Literature from UEA in 2006, where she took a number of classes and a dissertation […]
Anne Enright and Vesna Goldsworthy longlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright and Gorsky by UEA professor of Creative Writing Vesna Goldsworthy have been included in the 20 books longlisted for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is worth £30,000 to the winner. Anne graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and was recently announced […]