The Snow Line by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors / Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home. It was published by Scribe last year. Tessa (pictured) is the author of six previous novels, including Higher Ed […]
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Mick Jackson shortlisted for the Queen’s Knickers Award
While You’re Sleeping, a children’s picture book by UEA alumnus Mick Jackson and illustrator John Broadley, has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors / Queen’s Knickers Award, a prize founded by Nicholas Allan, author of The Queen’s Knickers, for an outstanding children’s original illustrated book for ages 0-7. It was published Pavilion Children’s Books in […]
Jean McNeil wins gold medal at Independent Publisher Book Awards
Day For Night, the new novel by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Jean McNeil, has won the gold medal in the literary fiction category at the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) in the USA. It was published by EWC Press last year. Jean (pictured) is the author of fourteen books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry […]
Joiners by Richard Skinner
Joiners: Essays, Reviews & Interviews is the new book by UEA graduate Richard Skinner and has just been published by Vanguard Editions. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1996 and is the author of three novels published by Faber: The Red Dancer (2002), The Velvet Gentleman (2008) and The Mirror (2014). His poems have been shortlisted […]
Black Butterflies
An extract from Priscilla Morris’s debut novel, Black Butterflies, published by Duckworth on 5 May 2022. I SPRING It sometimes seems to Zora that, with all the teaching and curating and meetings and paperwork and caring and cooking and cleaning and errands, she is floundering at the midpoint of her life. There’s no time […]
Rebecca Goss wins Sylvia Plath Prize
UEA alumna Rebecca Goss has won the Sylvia Plath Prize, which celebrate the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth, and will be published in After Sylvia (Nine Arches Press) this October. Rebecca (pictured) gained a PhD by Publication from UEA in 2019, having previously studied in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University and Creative Writing […]
Coward by Tim Clare
Coward: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It is the new book by UEA alumnus Tim Clare and is published by Canongate this week. Tim graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and published his first book, the memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts, in 2009. This was […]
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Black Butterflies is the debut novel by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris and is published by Duckworth Books this week. Priscilla grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English in Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, she joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA, graduating in […]
Stephanie Y. Tam shortlisted for Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize
Radio Silence by UEA alumna Stephanie Y. Tam has been shortlisted for the 2022 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize, which awards £3,000 to the best proposal for a book-length essay by a previously unpublished writer. In addition, the winner will have the opportunity to spend up to three months in residency at the Mahler […]
Writer by J.M. Burgoyne
Writer is the debut novel by UEA alumna J.M. (Jacqui) Burgoyne and is published by Story Machine this week. Jacqui graduated from the UEA BA in American Literature with Creative Writing in 2006 and from the Studies in Fiction MA in 2007. Since graduating, she has spent almost twenty years doing a wide variety of […]