Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction. Alice Slater, who graduatedfrom the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, is nominated for her novel Death of a Bookseller; and Stephen Buoro, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose […]
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Greg James & Chris Smith win Ruth Rendell Literacy Award
Greg James and Chris Smith have won the Ruth Rendell Literacy Award, which honours an author who has significantly influenced and championed literacy in the UK in the past year. Greg (pictured) graduated from the BA in Drama at UEA in 2007 and received an honorary doctorate in 2015. Throughout his time at UEA he […]
Blank Child
The following is an extract from a novel in progress. He’s yelling for her still. Looking back from where we come. Wailing Naaaa Neeeeee. I had thought the cart would please him. The horse, and the speed of it. But he’s clinging to the side with his hand all bloody. Too dark to […]
Rose Tremain longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Absolutely & Forever by UEA alumna Rose Tremain has been longlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Rose (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English in 1967 and later returned to the university to teach on the Creative Writing MA and, more recently, to become the University’s first female Chancellor. […]
The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin
The Snow Globe is the debut poetry collection by UEA alumna Jenny Pagdin and was published by Nine Arches Press last week. Jenny studied English at Oxford University and graduated from the MA Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA in 2009. Her pamphlet Caldbeck was published by Eyewear in 2017, shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition and […]
Stephen Buoro finalist in the LA Times Book Prizes
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by UEA alumnus Stephen Buoro has been named as a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award in the LA Times Book Prizes. Stephen (pictured) was born in Nigeria in 1993 and previously studied Mathematics before joining the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2018 as the recipient of that […]
Max Lury shortlisted for Galley Beggar Prize
‘Santa Fe’ a story by UEA alumnus Max Lury has been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press 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. The […]
Open Minded by Chloe Seager
Open Minded is the third YA novel by UEA alumna Chloe Seager and is published by HQ (an imprint of HarperCollins) this week. Chloe grew up in East London and graduated from UEA in 2014 with a BA in English Literature & Drama. She lives in London and is a literary agent specializing in Young […]
A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh
A Sign of Her Own is the debut novel by UEA alumna Sarah Marsh and was published by Tinder Press in February. Sarah read Human Sciences at Oxford and taught English in China before graduating from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2009. She has since worked in the arts sector and for literary […]
Trondheim by Cormac James
Trondheim is the latest novel by UEA alumnus Cormac James and was published by Bellevue Literary Press in February. Cormac was born and grew up in Cork, Ireland, and since 2002 has lived in Montpellier, France. He graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1994. He has published short fiction in Columbia, 3rd Bed, […]