This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is the newest collection by UEA alumna and Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing Naomi Wood and is published by Phoenix this week. Naomi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2013. Her […]
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The Wild Thyme Farm Murder by Judi Daykin
The Wild Thyme Farm Murder is the new novel by UEA alumna Judi Daykin and was published by Joffe Books in March. It is the sixth book in her Detective Sara Hirst series. Judi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at UEA in 2019. Her first novel Under Violent Skies was shortlisted for the […]
The Red Hollow
The following is an extract from Natalie Marlow’s novel The Red Hollow, published by Baskerville in March 2024. Chapter One Thursday, 1 February 1934 William stood near the office window, tea tray in hand, and stared out onto Needless Alley. It was not quite eight o’clock, and Birmingham was bathed in a mucky morning […]
The Red Hollow by Natalie Marlow
The Red Hollow is the second novel by UEA alumna Natalie Marlow and is published by Baskerville this week. It is the second book in the William Garrett Novels series, set in 1930s Birmingham. Natalie graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) in 2018 and is currently undertaking a PhD at Birkbeck, University […]
Ayòbámi Adébáyò shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize
A Spell of Good Things by UEA alumna Ayòbámi Adébáyò has been shortlisted for The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, an award for the best published literary work in the English language written by an author aged 39 or under. Ayòbámi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014. Her debut […]
Why Playing Translation?
Kari Dickson is a literary translator from Norwegian. Her work includes crime fiction, literary fiction, children’s books, theatre and non-fiction. Her translation of Roslund & Hellström’s Three Seconds won the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) International Dagger in 2011. She is also an occasional tutor in Norwegian language, literature and translation at the University of Edinburgh, and has worked […]
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
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 […]
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. […]