News
11/05/2011
Twice Born', the bestselling Italian novel by Margaret Mazzantini, has been translated by UEA Creative Writing alumna Ann Gagliardi and will be
published this month by Viking Penguin in the USA and Oneworld in the UK. Originally from the USA, Ann g...
10/05/2011
‘The English German Girl’ is the second novel by Jake Wallis Simons and is published this month by Polygon. Born in London in 1978, Jake was awarded
a first class degree in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD in ...
05/05/2011
‘Gillespie and I’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Jane Harris and is published by Faber and Faber today. Jane graduated from the MA in
Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992, and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995. Betw...
04/05/2011
UEA writer D.W. Wilson has received three nominations in the Fiction category of the annual Canadian National Magazine Awards. These are ‘The
Persistence’, which was published in Prairie Fire, and two stories written during his MA year: ‘The ...
28/04/2011
UEA writer Agnes Lehocsky is to be awarded the inaugural Jane Martin Poetry Prize by Girton College, Cambridge. Agnes (pictured) is a
Hungarian-born poet and translator who completed UEA’s Creative Writing (Poetry) MA with distinction in 2006. Sh...
26/04/2011
‘The Forgotten Waltz’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Anne Enright and is published by Jonathan Cape this week. Anne graduated from the Creative
Writing MA in 1987 and published her first collection of stories, ‘The Portable Virgin’, in 1991...
25/04/2011
‘22 Britannia Road’ is the first novel by UEA Creative Writing alumna Amanda Hodgkinson
and is published by Fig Tree this week. Amanda, who graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2001, now lives in south west France, where she is a
columnist fo...
24/04/2011
‘Sarawati Park’, the debut novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph, has been included on the longlist of ten novels for the 2011 Desmond Elliott
prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. The contenders will be narrowed down to a shortlist of thre...
11/04/2011
'Flip' is the first novel for young adults by UEA alumnus Martyn Bedford and has recently been published by Walker Books in the UK and Wendy Lamb Books (Random House) in the US. A second young adult novel, 'The Fallen One', will be published next y...
01/04/2011
‘The Godless Boys’ is the debut novel by Naomi Wood and is published by Picador today. Naomi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2008 and is currently studying for her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She was rec...