The summer I was twenty-one I figured I’d marry Art Carson. I settled on it in the double parlour at Verna Hobbes’ house, the day she married Alden Shirley, when the dance music treacled and I got stuck against the wallpaper with Art’s sister…
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A Drop of Honey
‘A Drop of Honey’ is an extract from Felicity Notley’s (yet untitled) novel-in-progress.
Canaan Gulch
Caroline steps cautiously up the front porch, careful not to trip on her skirts, and raps on the doorknob three times with the gold knocker. She’s met with silence…
Scoff
An extract from Lucy Malouf’s darkly comic novel-in-progress, Scoff
Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes
Nineveh by UEA writer Henrietta Rose-Innes is the first of her novels to be published in the UK and the USA. It will be published this week by Aardvark Bureau in the UK and by Unnamed Press in the US. Originally published in South Africa in 2011, Nineveh was shortlisted for the M-Net Literary Award and […]
Jean McNeil wins Phyllis and Don Munday Award
Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir by UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Jean McNeil has won the $4,000 Grand Prize – the Phyllis and Don Munday Award – at the Banff Mountain Film Festival book competition. The book was published by ECW Press in North America earlier this year. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Jean is […]
Meadhbh Ní Eadhra wins national Irish language literary award.
4-11-16 UEA alumna Meadhbh Ní Eadhra has won an Oireachtas Irish language literary award for her unpublished novel for teenagers, Faye. The award is worth €2,000. Meadhbh (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013. She is the author of two award-winning Irish language books for young people, Rua and Fáinne Fí […]
The Corner of Moon Street by Tom Saunders
The Corner of Moon Street is the new collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Tom Saunders and is published by Reuben Books this week. Tom graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and is the author of four other books, including most recently To The Boy (2014). His short stories have been […]
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Power is the new novel by UEA alumna Naomi Alderman and is published by Viking this week. Naomi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. Her first novel Disobedience (2006) won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers. Her second novel The […]
Ruby Robinson and Denise Riley shortlisted T S Eliot Prize
UEA alumna Ruby Robinson and UEA professor Denise Riley have been shortlisted for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for poetry. Ruby (pictured) is nominated for her debut collection Every Little Sound, which was published by Liverpool University Press earlier this year and shortlisted for the 2016 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. She graduated […]