Current UEA student Eliza Robertson has been shortlisted for the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, which is this year being judged by Roddy Doyle. The winner will be announced in March and all ten shortlisted stories will be publish...
UEA Creative Writing tutor Jean McNeil is the winner of this year’s PRISM magazine contest for ‘Ice Diaries: a climate change memoir’. Founded in 1959, and associated with Creative Writing programme at the University of Western Columbia, PRI...
UEA tutor in Creative Writing Rachel Hore has been included in the shortlist of five in the running for the Historical Romance category of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year Award. The winner of each category will be announced in March and will g...
UEA lecturer Helen Smith has won a Jerwood Award worth £5,000 for her forthcoming biography, ‘Edward Garnett: The Uncommon Reader’, which will be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK next year, and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA. The...
The recipient of this year’s David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at UEA is Presca Ahn, who joins us from New York. The Fellowship is an annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East ...
‘The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner’ is the new book by UEA alumna Sandra Newman and has just been published by Gotham Books. Sandra graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)...
‘Jasper and the Green Marvel’ is the new novel for children by UEA alumna Deirdre Madden and has just been published by Faber and Faber. Deirdre graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 1985 and published her first novel
‘Crocodile on the Carousel’ is the first novel by UEA alumna Sally Tissington and has just been published by G-Press. Sally graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2006. Already an accomplished visual artist, Sally is curr...
UEA Creative Writing alumnus Luke Williams is the winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish First Book of the Year Award for his debut novel, ‘The Echo Chamber’, which was published by Hamish Hamilton last year. Luke was born in 1977 and grew...
‘The Whores' Asylum’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Katy Darby and is published this week by Fig Tree. Katy (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 2006, when she was the recipient of the David Higham Award. Her work has been re...
