Two poems from Ramona Herdman’s new poetry collection, Glut, published in August 2022 by Nine Arches Press. Salad spinner I have failed to convey to you why I hate it so much. You laugh. There’s something obscene in plastic things – that the dinosaurs died, prehistoric forests went to mush, the whole […]
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Glut by Ramona Herdman
Glut is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumna Ramona Herdman and is published by Nine Arches Press this week. Ramona graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2001. Her previous collection, A warm and snouting thing, was published by The Emma Press and nominated in the Poetry category for the 2020 […]
Waste Extractions by Andrea Mason
Waste Extractions is a new fiction pamphlet by UEA alumna Andrea Mason and is published by Broken Sleep Books this week. Andrea graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, London, in 2020. In 2018 her novel, The Cremation Project, was shortlisted for […]
Spoilt Ballots by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall
Spoilt Ballots: The Elections That Shaped South Africa, From Shaka To Cyril is a new work of non-fiction co-authored by journalists Nick Dall and UEA alumnus Matthew Blackman. It was published on Kindle by Penguin South Africa in February of this year, and will be published as a Zebra Press paperback this week. Matthew gained a […]
Catriona Ward shortlisted for August Derleth Award
The Last House On Needless Street by UEA alumna Catriona Ward has been shortlisted for the August Derleth Award (Best Horror Novel) at the British Fantasy Awards. Catriona (pictured) was born in Washington DC and grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from […]
Christie Watson in conversation with Fiona Lettice
The UEA Literary Festival was founded in 1991 and this past academic year we have been celebrating 30 years of live literature at the university. Now known as UEA Live, the Spring 2021 season featured this event with Christie Watson in conversation with Fiona Lettice. Christie is a Professor of Medical and Health Humanities at […]
John Patrick McHugh receives Next Generation Award
UEA alumnus John Patrick McHugh has been awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award worth €25,000, one of twenty bursaries designed to support emerging Irish artists across all disciplines at an early but crucial stage in their career. John (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2014 as the […]
Divya Ghelani and Laura Fish longlisted for SI Leeds Literary Prize
Two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the biennial SI Leeds Literary Prize, which recognises unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women. Laura Fish is nominated for her novel Lying Perfectly Still and Divya Ghelani for her novel Night School. Laura graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2002 and from […]
Jyoti Patel and Ellen Wiese longlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize
Current UEA student Ellen Wiese and MA alumna Jyoti Patel have been longlisted for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize. Ellen, who is nominated for ‘The Walking King’, is currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). Born in Minnesota, she received her BA and MAPH in English Literature from the University of Chicago […]
No Country for Girls
The opening of Emma Styles’ debut novel, No Country for Girls, published by Sphere on 21 July 2022. The highway is long and flat and arrow-straight, running into the setting sun, and that is how he gets into difficulty. That, and his too-frequent glances between the rearview mirror and the holdall on the passenger […]