Recent UEA alumna Alice Willitts has won the 2018 Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition for her collection, Dear, which will be published by Magma in 2019. Alice graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in September 2018. Earlier in the year she was shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize with her creative partner and fellow […]
Archives for 2018
Penny Boxall wins PBS / Mslexia Women’s Poetry Prize
‘A Wedding List’ by UEA alumna Penny Boxall has won the Poetry Book Society / Mslexia Women’s Poetry Prize, judged by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. She will receive £2000, publication in Mslexia and the PBS Bulletin, a mentorship by PBS Book Selector Sandeep Parmar and a Cove Park writing retreat. Penny (pictured) graduated from […]
Sara Taylor wins Eccles British Library Writer’s Award
UEA alumna Sara Taylor has been announced as the winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, along with non-fiction writer Rachel Hewitt. She will receive £20,000 and have access to the British Library’s Americas collections for research during a year-long residency, starting in January 2019, as she works on her third novel Children of Sorrow (Random […]
Fflur Dafydd longlisted for New Welsh Writing Awards
The White Trail by UEA alumna Fflur Dafydd has been longlisted for the 2019 New Welsh Writing Awards. Fflur (pictured) writes in both her native Welsh and in English. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000 and has since written for stage, screen and radio, as well as recording and […]
they are really molluscs by Anna Cathenka
they are really molluscs is the new pamphlet of poetry by recent UEA alumna Anna Cathenka and has just been published by Salo Press. Anna holds a BA in Creative Writing from Falmouth University and was the recipient of the 2017/18 Ink, Sweat & Tears scholarship for the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. […]
Susan Karen Burton shortlisted for Tony Lothian Prize
Gaijin: Modern Japan Through Western Eyes by UEA alumna Susan Karen Burton has been shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club 2018 Tony Lothian Prize, which awards £2,000 to the best proposal for a first uncommissioned biography. Susan graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2014. She has co-authored two academic books and is […]
Neel Mukherjee shortlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
A State Of Freedom, the third novel by UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee, has been shortlisted for the $25,000 (£19,000) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus last year. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001, Neel published his first novel, A Life Apart, in […]
Frieda by Annabel Abbs
Frieda is the second novel by UEA alumna Annabel Abbs and is published by Two Roads this week. Annabel graduated from UEA in 1987 with a BA in English Literature, after which she established a successful marketing consultancy. Her short stories have been nominated for various awards, while her debut novel won the 2015 Impress Prize […]
Tiger by Rebecca Tamás
Tiger is a single long-form poem by UEA alumna Rebecca Tamás and has recently been published as a pamphlet by Bad Betty Shots. Rebecca (pictured) completed her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA in 2017, having previously gained a BA in English & Creative Writing from Warwick University and an MA in Creative Writing […]
Phantom by Leo Hunt
Phantom is the new dystopian fantasy novel for Young Adults by UEA alumnus Leo Hunt and has recently been published by Orchard Books. Leo graduated from UEA in 2014 with a BA in American Literature with Creative Writing. His first YA novel, Thirteen Days of Midnight, was published by Orchard in 2015 and was shortlisted for the […]