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 […]
Archives for 2017
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 […]
Tinderbox by Megan Dunn
Tinderbox is the first book by UEA alumna Megan Dunn and is published by Galley Beggar Press this week. Megan graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2006 and subsequently won an Escalator award from the New Writing Partnership (now Writers’ Centre Norwich). Her short story ‘The Mermaid and the Music Box’ […]
Meadhbh Ní Eadhra wins National Oireachtas literary competition
UEA alumna Meadhbh Ní Eadhra has won first prize in the National Oireachtas literary competition for her unpublished novel Dath. The prize is worth €2,000, and Dath will be published by Leabhair Comhar in 2018. Meadhbh (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013. She is the author of three other award-winning […]
Anjali Joseph shortlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The Living by UEA alumna Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which is worth $25,000 to the winner. Anjali (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and from the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing in 2014. Earlier this year she was longlisted for […]