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 […]
Archives for 2017
Krishan Coupland longlisted for Short Fiction Prize
‘The Life of Dogbreath’ by UEA alumnus Krishan Coupland has been included on the longlist of twelve for the 2017 Short Fiction Prize. Krishan (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014 and is currently undertaking his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing, also at UEA. Earlier this year he published […]
Rowan Whiteside shortlisted for Wilbur Smith Award
Yellow Tooth by UEA alumna Rowan Whiteside has been shortlisted for the 2017 Wilbur Smith Best Unpublished Manuscript award. Rowan (pictured) was born in South Africa and grew up in the UK. She completed a BA in English and American Literature at UEA before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), from which she […]
Seed by Joanna Walsh
Seed is a digital novella by UEA student Joanna Walsh and has just been published by Visual Editions. Joanna (pictured) is completing a CHASE-funded PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA, exploring the possibilities of digital narrative. Earlier this year she won an Arts Foundation Fellowship in the Creative Non-Fiction category. She is a […]
Judy O’Kane wins National Memory Day Writing Competition
‘The Fig Tree’ by UEA writer Judy O’Kane has been announced as the winner in the poetry category of the National Memory Day Writing Competition. Judy also recently won the Irish Post Listowel Writers’ Week competition. A former lawyer who currently teaches advocacy at the Law Society of Ireland, Judy graduated from the MA in […]
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan shortlisted for Betty Trask Award
Harmless Like You, the debut novel by UEA student Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, has been shortlisted for this year’s Betty Trask Award, which is worth £10,000 to the winner and £3,000 to each of the shortlisted authors. Rowan (pictured) was shortlisted earlier this month for the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize. […]
Lawson Lies Still In The Thames by Gill Blanchard
Lawson Lies Still in the Thames: The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson (Amberley Publishing) is the second book by UEA alumna Gill Blanchard to be published this year, following I Therefore Post Him As A Coward: An Anatomy Of A Norfolk Scandal, 1836, which was recently published by Poppyland Publishing. Gill graduated from […]
The Irregular by H.B. Lyle
The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy is the new novel by UEA alumnus Ben Lyle, writing as H.B. Lyle. It will be published by Hodder and Stoughton this week, and has also been acquired for development as a TV series by See-Saw Films, with Saul Dibb to direct and the author to co-adapt. Ben […]
I Therefore Post Him As A Coward by Gill Blanchard.
I Therefore Post Him As A Coward: An Anatomy Of A Norfolk Scandal, 1836 is the new book by UEA alumna Gill Blanchard and has just been published by Poppyland Publishing. Gill graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2015 and is a professional genealogist and house historian. She has previously published […]
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
New Boy by UEA alumna Tracy Chevalier is published this week as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series in which contemporary novelists are commissioned to retell a Shakespeare play, in this case Othello. Tracy graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1994 and published her first novel The Virgin Blue in 1996. Her […]