Bird Sisters is the first full length poetry collection by UEA alumna Julia Webb and has just been published by Nine Arches Press. Julia gained a BA in Creative Writing from Norwich University of the Arts before graduating from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA in 2010. She is one of the editorial […]
Archives for April 2016
New play by Sue Healy
That Brazen Electric Strap of a Wan is a new play by UEA alumna Sue Healy and will be performed at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington, on the 7th, 14th and 19th May at 3p.m. The show is supported by Arts Council England and National Lottery funding and is directed by Adina Levay, the artistic […]
Natasha Pulley and Catriona Ward shortlisted for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
Two titles by UEA alumnae are in contention for the 2016 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury Circus) and Rawblood by Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld) have been named on a shortlist of six, with the winner to be announced on 7th June. Catriona (pictured) was born in […]
Andreas Hadjivassiliou shortlisted for BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition
Exiles by UEA Scriptwriting student Andreas Hadjivassiliou is one of three winning scripts in the TV Drama category of this year’s BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition. Andreas (pictured) was born in Sheffield in 1993 and completed a BA in English Literature before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) at UEA. His first screenplay, Many […]
Timed Out by Barbara Lorna Hudson
Timed Out is the first novel by Barbara Lorna Hudson, a graduate of the prose fiction courses offered by UEA in association with the Guardian in London, where she was taught by the novelist and UEA alumnus Adam Foulds. Barbara is an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, where she taught psychiatric social work. […]
Sarah Knights shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by UEA alumna Sarah Knights has been shortlisted for this year’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. Sarah (pictured) graduated from the MA in Life Writing at UEA in 2006 and completed an AHRC-funded PhD in 2011 under the supervision […]
Not Working
An extract from Lisa Owens’ debut novel, Not Working, published by Picador in hardback on 21st April.
Hannah Garrard longlisted for New Welsh Writing Award
UEA alumna Hannah Garrard has been longlisted for the 2016 New Welsh Writing Award for travel writing. Hannah (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2005 and with an MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2015. Her longlisted essay ‘No Situation is Permanent’ was written as her MA dissertation. She […]
Not Working by Lisa Owens
Not Working is the debut novel by UEA alumna Lisa Owens and is published by Picador this week. Lisa was born in 1985 and grew up in Glasgow and Hertfordshire. She graduated with a BA in English from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and spent six years working in publishing before joining the MA in Creative Writing […]
Imogen Gowar and Shelene Teo shortlisted for Deborah Rogers Award
Two UEA alumnae have been included in the shortlist of three unpublished authors competing for the inaugural £10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award. The Award was established in honour of the literary agent, who died in 2014, and is intended to support writers from the UK and Ireland in completing their first books. Imogen Hermes […]