No Country for Girls by UEA alumna Emma Styles has been longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. Emma grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London, where she was born. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020, having previously worked as a […]
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Ventriloquise by Ned Denny
Ventriloquise is a new poetry collection by UEA alumnus Ned Denny and is published by Carcanet this week. Ned graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2012. He was born in London in 1975 and has worked as a postman, art critic, book reviewer, music journalist and gardener. His poems and remakes have […]
Gavin McCrea longlisted for Polari Book Prize
Cells by UEA alumnus Gavin McCrea has been longlisted for the Polari Book Prize. Gavin was born in Dublin in 1978 and has since lived in Japan, Belgium, Italy, the UK, and Spain. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009 and gained his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2013. […]
Freya Bantiff wins Poetry Business’s New Poets Prize
All Appears Ordinary a poetry pamphlet by UEA writer Freya Bantiff (previously Carter) has won The Poetry Business’s New Poets Prize. Freya is currently completing her MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). She was the third prize winner of the 2022 National Poetry Competition, won the Bridport Poetry Prize (18-25) while being highly commended in the […]
Consumed by Greg Buchanan
Consumed is the new novel by UEA alumnus Greg Buchanan and was published by Orion last week. Greg graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2018, having previously completed a BA in English Literature at Cambridge and a PhD at King’s College, London. He has worked on a variety of bestselling, award-winning […]
The Rise and Decline of Be-Me.Com
Malachi McIntosh’s debut short collection, Parables, Fables, Nightmares, is to be published by The Emma Press in September 2023 and is available for pre-order I write this from the distance of a great deal of History, the tragedy of Be-Me.com alive to us in ways that it couldn’t have been to its contemporaries. […]
The Witching Tide
An extract from Margaret Meyer’s debut novel, The Witching Tide, published by Phoenix in July 2023 Early September, 1645 Wednesday She was in the garden at first light. There were herbs to cut: rosemary for the roast meat, mint and mallow for her cough. The house and the street and the hill beyond it […]
Andrea Mason runner-up for Desperate Literature Prize
‘Today, at the Dump, The World is in the Bin’ by UEA alumna Andrea Mason has been named as one of the Desperate Literature Prize runners-up. Andrea graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, London, in 2020. In 2018 her first novel, […]
Tom Watson shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award
Metronome by UEA alumnus Tom Watson has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Tom graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017 as the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize for best student writing. He previously worked for a Japanese trading house, and his fiction has since been shortlisted for […]
Clare Morgan longlisted for Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Scar Tissue by UEA alumna Clare Morgan has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Clare graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1991 having already published one novel, A Touch of the Other, with Gollancz in 1984. Her short stories have been widely anthologised and broadcast and were published as An Affair […]