Mrs Engels, the debut novel by UEA alumnus Gavin McCrea, has been shortlisted for this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. Gavin completed the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2009 and gained his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2013. Mrs Engels was published by […]
Archives for May 2016
Sharlene Teo wins Deborah Rogers Award
UEA student Sharlene Wen-Ning Teo has won the inaugural £10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award, which 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. Sharlene (pictured) is a Singaporean writer based in the UK who […]
Claire Carter filmscript wins two awards at Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
A short documentary film scripted by UEA alumna Claire Carter won both Best Film and the People’s Choice Award at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival. Operation Moffat, made in collaboration with film-maker Jen Randall, follows the climbing career of Gwen Moffat, now 91, who was Britain’s first female mountain guide. Moffat’s first book Space Below […]
Luke Wright nominated for Saboteur Awards
UEA alumnus Luke Wright has been nominated in two categories of this year’s Saboteur Awards. He is shortlisted in the Best Spoken Word Performer category as well as in the Best Spoken Word Show category for his show What I Learned From Johnny Bevan. The awards are run by The Sabotage Times, with the winners […]