The Mars House is the latest novel by UEA alumna Natasha Pulley and is published by Gollancz this week. Natasha studied English Literature at Oxford University and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012, after which she completed a nineteen-month Daiwa Fellowship in Tokyo, Japan. Her first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree […]
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Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
Floating Hotel is the latest novel from UEA alumna Grace Curtis and is published by Hodderscape this week. Grace graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2019 and currently works for the video game publisher Future Friends. As a games journalist, she has written for magazines including Eurogamer and Edge. Her debut novel Frontier was published […]
Paul Murray wins the Nero Gold Prize
The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has been selected as the winner of the Nero Gold Prize, the overall winner of the previously announced category winners of the Nero Book Awards. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long […]
Anne Enright wins the Writers’ Prize
The Wren, The Wren by UEA alumna Anne Enright has as won the Writers’ Prize fiction category. Formerly known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Writers’ Prize is an award open to all works of literature written in English of any genre or form (except for books written explicitly for children) and published in the UK. […]
Yan Ge longlisted for the Jhalak Prize
Elsewhere by UEA alumna Yan Ge has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, an award that seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. Yan was born in Sichuan, China, in 1984, and is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. She graduated from UEA with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2020. […]
Practice
The following is an excerpt from Rosalind’s debut novel Practice published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and reproduced with permission. Oxford, 2009 The alarm goes off. A small spider, sitting in a corner of the dark room, would see her stir in bed, and her hand slow and uncomplaining reach over to the clock. […]
Practice by Rosalind Brown
Practice is the debut novel by UEA alumna Rosalind Brown and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Rosalind graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2016 and from the Creative & Critical Writing PhD in 2022.She grew up in Cambridge, and now lives in Norwich. Her work has appeared in […]
Moral Injuries by Christie Watson
Moral Injuries is the new novel by UEA alumna and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Christie trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked in nursing for twenty years before graduating from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in […]
Anne Enright longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Wren, The Wren by UEA alumna Anne Enright has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Anne graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and is the author of eleven previous books, including the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Gathering. Her most recent novel The Green Road was published […]
Max Lury wins the Galley Beggar Prize
‘Santa Fe’ by UEA alumnus Max Lury has won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. Max Lury (pictured) graduated from the MA (Prose Fiction) in 2021, having previously completed a BA in Philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was previously longlisted for the 2022 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Max will receive £2500 for winning […]