Amit Chaudhuri’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Prose Fiction MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE My first experience of a Creative Writing department was the term I spent at Columbia University in 2002 (teaching not writing but literature and modernism at the department during a one-off stint). The students were intellectually open […]
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The Three Christmas Eve Masses
A translation, with slight adaptation, of ‘Les Trois Messes Basses’, a short story from Contes du Lundi by Alphonse Daudet, published in 1873. ‘Two stuffed turkeys, Garrigou?’ ‘Yes, Reverend, two magnificent turkeys crammed full of truffles. And I should know; I helped stuff them. They looked as though their skin might burst while roasting, […]
Scenes From Life on Earth by Kathryn Simmonds
Scenes From Life on Earth is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumna Kathryn Simmonds and is published this week by Salt. Kathryn graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 2002. She received an Eric Gregory Award in the same year and published a pamphlet, Snug, in 2004. Her debut collection of […]
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
How to Write About Africa is a posthumous collection of essays by UEA alumnus Binyavanga Wainaina and has just been published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton. Binyavanga graduated from UEA with an MPhil in Creative and Critical Writing in 2010. He died in 2019, aged 48. A writer and activist, he was born in […]
Two poems from Scenes From Life On Earth
Two poems from Kathryn Simmonds’ third collection of poems, Scenes from Life on Earth, published by Salt in October 2022. Sunflowers, September Too often now they’re shivery, tattered, catching at us with their ruined looks. Which of us could drag them by the roots, even this one with its head half gone. Don’t […]
IMPLODE EXPLODE by Naoise Gale
IMPLODE EXPLODE is the first full-length collection of poetry by current UEA student Naoise Gale and is published this week by Beir Bua. Naoise (pictured) has just begun the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. Her debut pamphlet After the Flood Comes the Apologies was published by Nine Pens in October 2021. Her work has also been […]
Hanna Thomas Uose shortlisted for Morley Prize
Who Wants to Live Forever by current UEA Creative Writing student Hanna Thomas Uose has been shortlisted for the Morley Prize, an annual prize jointly presented by Morley College London and the Rachel Mills Literary Agency and awarded to a previously unpublished writer of colour. Hanna (pictured) is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing […]
Natasha Pulley longlisted for HWA Gold Crown
The Kingdoms by UEA alumna Natasha Pulley has been longlisted for the 2022 Historical Writers Association (HWA) Gold Crown. It was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Natasha (pictured) 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 […]
The Genesis of Misery
An extract from Neon Yang’s debut novel, The Genesis of Misery, published by Tor Books on 27 September 2022. Misery’s pad for the night is an anchorex’s cell, a tight little thing in the honeycombed borders of Church headquarters. Walls of holy jade enclose a bed, a simple access panel, a desk, and a […]
Tim MacGabhann longlisted for Writing.ie An Post Short Story Award
UEA alumnus Tim MacGabhann has been longlisted for the Writing.ie An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year Award. The winner is selected by public vote after the shortlisted stories are published on the Writing.ie website. Tim (pictured) was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and began his writing career as a music journalist while […]