I find myself in a moment of change. The bookcases are empty, the books packed in boxes stacked high in our living room that will be shipped overseas in a few hours. Save a dictionary or two and a few books I need with me for work, for the first time in years my life […]
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As for the love of beautiful creatures
A poem from the pamphlet My Bodies This Morning This Evening by Eve Esfandiari-Denney, published by Bad Betty Press in March 2022. ……… ….I believe in a bag of wet bikinis, the tradition of sadness, that everywhere is a mother dying as a mother does forever mutilated and sleeping, spinning light and organs like […]
Mark Wightman shortlisted for CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award
Waking the Tiger by UEA alumnus Mark Wightman has been shortlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best debut crime novel. It was published by Hobeck last year and has previously been shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Debut of the Year Award and longlisted for the McIlvanney […]
Laura Ashton Hill shortlisted for CWA Debut Dagger
Holloway Castle by UEA alumna Laura Ashton Hill has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger, which is a competition for the opening of a crime novel by a writer who isn’t represented by an agent and hasn’t previously published a novel. Laura (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in […]
The Telling by Julia Webb
The Telling is the third collection of poetry by UEA alumna Julia Webb and is published this week by Nine Arches Press. Julia gained a BA in Creative Writing from Norwich University of the Arts before graduating from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA in 2010. She was the winner of the National […]
Workout! by Lewis Buxton
Workout! is a poetry-theatre show by UEA alumnus Lewis Buxton and makes its sold-out debut at Norwich Arts Centre this week as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Lewis (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2014 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2020. His debut […]
Kazuo Ishiguro shortlisted for Indie Book Awards
Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro, has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the 2022 Indie Book Awards, which are organised by the Bookseller’s Association. It was published by Faber & Faber last year. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author […]
Writer
An extract from JM Burgoyne’s debut novel, Writer, published by Story Machine on 5 May 2022. Someone is walking under a black sky towards a house. A white house with wooden slats, blue grey on the lintels and window frames, on the doors, the shutters, overhang of the roof. The roof is slate. The […]
Girl Online: A User Manual by Joanna Walsh
Girl Online: A User Manual is the new work by UEA alumna Joanna Walsh and is published by Verso this week. Joanna completed her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA in 2020. Among her previous books are Break.up, Vertigo, Hotel, Seed, Grow a Pair, Words from the World’s End, My Life as a Godard Movie, […]
You’ve Changed by Pyae Moe Thet War
You’ve Changed is the debut collection of essays by UEA alumna Pyae Moe Thet War and has just been published by Catapult in the USA. Pyae graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2019. She was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar, before gaining a BA in Literary Studies and Creative Writing […]