War Is Over is the new novel for children aged 9-11 by UEA alumnus David Almond and has just been published by Hodder Children’s Books. David graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies in 1973 and began a career as a teacher before publishing his first novel in his late forties. He […]
Archives for 2018
Imogen Hermes Gowar shortlisted for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
UEA alumna Imogen Hermes Gowar has been shortlisted for the 2018 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, which is co-sponsored by the literary agency Peters Fraser & Dunlop in association with the University of Warwick. Imogen (pictured) is nominated for her debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, which was also shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for […]
Rabbit by Sophie Robinson
Rabbit is the third collection of poetry by UEA lecturer in Creative Writing Sophie Robinson and is published by Boiler House Press this week. It was recently nominated as the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice for Winter 2018. Sophie (pictured) holds an MA in Poetic Practice from Royal Holloway, London, where she also completed her […]
UEA alumni shortlisted for East Anglian Book of the Year Awards
Books by four alumni of the UEA Creative Writing programme have been shortlisted for the 2018 East Anglian Book of the Year Awards. Phyllida Scrivens (pictured), who graduated from the Biography and Creative Non-Fiction MA in 2014, is nominated in the Biography and Memoir category for The Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich 1923-2017 (Pen & Sword). Mitch […]
Emily Ruth Ford wins RSL / V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
UEA alumna Emily Ruth Ford has become the first person to win the Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize for a second time. Emily (pictured) was the winner of the award in 2017 for her story The Hikers and has just been announced as the winner of the 2018 award for Please Be Good To […]
House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
House of Glass is the new novel by UEA alumna Susan Fletcher and is published by Virago this week. Susan was born in Birmingham in 1979 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2002. Her first novel, Eve Green, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Prize and the […]
Lion City by Yi-Sheng Ng
Lion City is the debut collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Yi-Sheng Ng and is published by Singaporean publisher Epigram this week. Yi-Sheng was born in Singapore in 1980 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014, having previously majored in Comparative Literature and Writing at Columbia University, USA. In 1998 […]
The Messenger by Megan Davis wins Bridport / Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award
The Messenger by UEA alumna Megan Davis has won this year’s Bridport / Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a first novel. The Illustrated Child by current student Polly Crosby was the runner-up. The award is co-sponsored by The Literary Consultancy and the AM Heath Literary Agency and was won by Megan’s classmate Deepa Anappara last year. Megan (pictured) graduated […]
Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
Red Birds is the third novel by UEA alumnus Mohammed Hanif and is published in the UK by Bloomsbury this week. Mohammed graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2005 and published his debut novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes in 2008. This was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and […]
Rafina by Shandana Minhas
Rafina is a new novella by current UEA student Shandana Minhas and has recently been published by Pan Macmillan India. Shandana’s debut novel Tunnel Vision was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and translated into Italian. Her second novel Survival Tips for Lunatics was published in 2014 and won the Karachi Literature Festival Fiction Prize. Daddy’s Boy, […]