A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf is a history of female literary friendships jointly authored by UEA Creative Writing graduates (and friends) Emma Claire Sweeney and Emily Midorikawa. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood, it has just been published by Aurum Press in the UK and will be published […]
Archives for June 2017
SE Craythorne, Alex Ivey, Owen Nicholls and Sunitha Webster selected for Escalator Scheme.
Four UEA Creative Writing alumni have been selected for this year’s Escalator Talent Development Scheme, which is administered by Writers’ Centre Norwich and supported by Arts Council England and the Leverhulme Trust. Over the next ten months each of the writers will receive a package of support including one-to-one mentoring from established writers, a residential […]
Tom Benn’s Real Gods Require Blood premieres at Cannes Film Festival
Real Gods Require Blood, the debut short film scripted by UEA alumnus Tom Benn, has recently been premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Week. Directed by Moin Hussain, the film was initially written on the iWrite scheme, an initiative set up by Creative England for emerging screenwriters. It will receive its UK […]