Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner and £1,000 to each shortlisted author. Jane Harris graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992 and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995 and is nominated for […]
Archives for February 2018
Anne Enright receives Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature
UEA alumna Anne Enright has this week been announced as the recipient of the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. Anne (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and in 2015 became the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. She is the author of ten books, including the winner of […]
Elizabeth MacNeal wins Caledonia Novel Award
The Doll Factory, by recent UEA graduate Elizabeth MacNeal, has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Caledonia Novel Award, an international award for unpublished and self-published novelists. Elizabeth (pictured) grew up in Edinburgh and read English Literature at Oxford University, where she was a Buccleugh Scholar. After working in the City for several […]
Ayobami Adebayo longlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Stay With Me, the debut novel by UEA alumna Ayobami Adebayo, has been longlisted for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize, days after being nominated for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize. Ayobami (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2014 and was the recipient of a full-fees International Scholarship. Stay With […]
Fire on the Mountain by Jean McNeil
Fire on the Mountain is the new novel by UEA Reader in Creative Writing Jean McNeil and is published this week in the UK by Legend Press. Originally from Nova Scotia in Canada, Jean is the author of twelve previous books, including a collection of short stories and five novels, most recently The Dhow House, […]
Go The Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst
Go The Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality And Desire is the first book by UEA alumnus Michael Amherst and is published by Repeater Books this week. Michael gained his BA from Oxford University and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2007. He is currently working on a […]
Only Killers And Thieves by Paul Howarth
Only Killers And Thieves is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Paul Howarth and has just been published as a lead title by HarperCollins in the US. Translation rights have also been sold, and the novel will be published by Pushkin Press in the UK in June. Paul was born and grew up in the […]
John Steciuk shortlisted for Galley Beggar Short Story Prize
‘The Land of Nod’ by recent UEA graduate John Steciuk has been shortlisted for this year’s Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. John was born in Manchester in 1989 and graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2012 and with an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017. […]
Ayobami Adebayo longlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
Stay With Me, the debut novel by UEA alumna Ayobami Adebayo, has been longlisted for this year’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize, which is awarded to the best literary work in English by an author aged 39 or under. Ayobami (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2014 and was […]
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
The Adulterants is the third novel by UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Joe graduated from the English Literature with Creative Writing BA at UEA in 2004, and from the MA in Creative Writing in 2005, when he was the inaugural recipient of the Curtis Brown Award. His debut […]