Novels by two UEA alumni have been included in the New York Times list of 100 notable books of 2017. They are Stay With Me (Canongate), the debut novel by Ayobami Adebayo (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014, and The Power (Viking), the fourth novel by 2003 MA […]
Archives for November 2017
Hannah Vincent shortlisted for Manchester Fiction Prize
‘She-Clown’ by UEA alumna Hannah Vincent has been shortlisted for the 2017 Manchester Writing Competition Fiction Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. The prize was won last year by UEA alumnus D.W. Wilson, while the Poetry prize was jointly won by UEA alumna Rebecca Tamás. Hannah (pictured) graduated from the BA in Drama […]
Jake Reynolds shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize
UEA alumnus Jake Reynolds has been shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize, which is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and is designed to assist English-language poets working towards their debut pamphlet or collection. The winner receives £1,700 and will be published in The White Review. Jake (pictured) was born and raised in Lincoln […]
Rebecca Stott shortlisted for Costa Biography Award
UEA Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Rebecca Stott has been shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Biography Award for her memoir In the Days of Rain, published by 4th Estate earlier this year. Rebecca is the author of several academic books on Victorian literature and several cross-over books on the history of science, including Darwin […]
The Uncommon Reader by Helen Smith
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett is the first biography by Helen Smith and has just been published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. It will be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux next month. Helen is a lecturer in Non-Fiction and Modern Literature at UEA and Director of the MA in […]
The Alarming Palsy Of James Orr by Tom Lee
The Alarming Palsy Of James Orr is the second book by UEA alumnus Tom Lee and has recently been published by Granta. Tom graduated from UEA’s undergraduate programme in 1993 and subsequently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths College London. He published his first collection of stories Greenfly in 2009. His stories have been published in […]
Letters Home by Martyn Bedford
Letters Home is the new collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Martyn Bedford and has just been published by Comma Press. Martin graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1994 and has since published five novels for adults, including his debut Acts of Revision, which won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work […]
It Felt Like Worship by Francesca Kritikos – Review
I remember reading ‘Annie’, the opening poem of Francesca Kritikos’ It Felt Like Worship, in our 2015 undergraduate anthology — stood in the campus bookshop just after meeting Francesca in second year. I think I speak for everyone who encountered her poems in seminars and readings when I say we knew she was already a […]
Julianne Pachico and Richard Lambert shortlisted for East Anglian Book Awards
Two UEA Creative Writing alumni have been shortlisted for the 2017 East Anglian Book Awards, which are organised by the Eastern Daily Press, Jarrolds, and Writers’ Centre Norwich. Julianne Pachico is nominated in the Fiction category for her debut collection of stories The Lucky Ones, published by Faber & Faber earlier this year, while Richard […]
Emily Ford wins V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
‘The Hikers’ by UEA alumna Emily Ford has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Emily (pictured) graduated from Oxford with a degree in Literature in 2004 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) earlier this year. A former journalist at The Times […]