27-6-16 UEA author Eliza Robertson has been shortlisted the 2016 Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award. She was also shortlisted in 2015. The award is organized by the Canadian Authors Association and the shortlists in four categories are chosen from over 300 nominations. Eliza (pictured) joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in […]
Archives for June 2016
Sophie Collins and Emily Berry in relaunched Penguin Modern Poets
27-6-16 UEA alumna Sophie Collins and current PhD student Emily Berry are to be published alongside Anne Carson in the first volume of the relaunched Penguin Modern Poets series. Sophie was born in 1989 and grew up in North Holland. She studied Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, before joining the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) […]
Owl Song At Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
27-6-16 Owl Song At Dawn is the debut novel by UEA alumna Emma Claire Sweeney and is published by Legend Press this week. Emma graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004, and has since won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards for her writing. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent […]
Hannah Garrard highly commended for New Welsh Writing Award
23-6-16 UEA alumna Hannah Garrard has been highly commended 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. She grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Norwich, where she […]
Thomas Morris wins Somerset Maugham Award
23-6-16 UEA alumnus Thomas Morris has been awarded a Somerset Maugham Award worth £2,000 at this year’s Society of Authors Awards Ceremony for his debut collection of short stories, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, which was published by Faber & Faber last year. Thomas (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013 and […]
Sam Buchan-Watts wins Eric Gregory Award
23-6-16 UEA alumnus Sam Buchan-Watts has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award at this year’s Society of Authors Awards Ceremony. The award is for poets under the age of thirty. 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. […]
Baby by Patricia Debney
20-6-16 Baby is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumna Patricia Debney and has recently been published by Cinnamon Press. Patricia graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1992. Her first collection, How to Be a Dragonfly, won the 2004 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her other publications include Gestation […]
Syed Haider Shahbaz awarded Charles Pick South Asia Writing Fellowship
20-6-16 Syed Haider Shahbaz has been selected as the 2016/17 Charles Pick South Asia Writing Fellow at UEA. The fellowship is worth £26,000 and lasts for six months. It is dedicated to the memory of the publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick, and is intended to support the work of a new and as yet […]
Gavin McCrea longlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown
17-6-16 Mrs Engels, the debut novel by UEA alumnus Gavin McCrea, has been longlisted for the 2016 Historical Writers Association Goldsboro Debut Crown, which is for debut historical fiction. Gavin (pictured) completed the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2009 and gained his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2013. Mrs […]
Anne Enright wins IBW Book Award
17-6-16 The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright has been announced as the winner in the adult category of this year’s Independent Bookseller Week Book Awards. Anne (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and was last year announced as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. She is the author of […]