At The Table is the debut novel by UEA alumna Claire Powell and is published this week by Fleet/Little Brown. Claire graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012 and was awarded both the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary and the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant for best performance on the MA. Born in London, […]
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Metronome by Tom Watson
Metronome is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Tom Watson and is published by Bloomsbury this week. Tom graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017 as the recipient of the Curtis Brown Prize for best student writing. He previously worked for a Japanese trading house, and his fiction has since been […]
At The Table
An extract from At the Table, the debut novel from Claire Powell, published by Fleet on 31 March 2022 By five o clock it’s raining so heavily some of the software developers have actually removed their headphones and skulked over to the windows to gawk. ‘Good luck,’ someone says as Nicole heads out the […]
Mistakes
Mistakes. Missteps. The dirty secrets, the errors burned into a translator’s brain. Like typos, often so tiny they barely register — which is the point — and yet in reviews they are seized on by critics as nuggets of proof that flag up the translator’s unworthiness for this undertaking, a kind of textual “Gotcha!” This […]
Mona Arshi longlisted for Jhalak Prize
Somebody Loves You by UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been longlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by British and British resident BAME writers. Mona (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2012. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Dear Big Gods was published […]
Peach Blossom Spring
An extract from Melissa Fu’s debut novel, Peach Blossom Spring, published by Wildfire on 17 March 2022. Origins Tell us, they say, tell us where you’re from. He is from walking and walking and walking. He is from shoes filled with holes, blistered toes and calloused heels that know the roughness of gravel roads […]
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
Peach Blossom Spring is the first novel by former UEA Writing Fellow Melissa Fu and is published this by Wildfire in the UK. It will be published by Little, Brown in the US. Melissa (pictured) completed the novel during her tenure as the 2018-19 David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow at UEA. Originally from Northern New Mexico, […]
Violet Kupersmith longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Build Your House Around My Body, the debut novel by former UEA writing fellow Violet Kupersmith, has been longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was published by Oneworld last year. Violet (pictured) joined UEA as the David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow in 2015. She was born in rural Pennsylvania in 1989, and […]
Across The Water by Jack Byrne
Across The Water is the second novel in the Liverpool Mystery Series by UEA alumnus Jack Byrne and is published by Northodox Press this week. Jack was born and raised in Speke, Liverpool, and graduated from UEA’s BA in English Literature in 2003. He published his debut collection of short stories, The One Road, in 2020. […]
Sundial
The first chapter of Sundial by Catriona Ward, published by Viper in March 2022. Rob It’s the chickenpox that makes me sure – my husband is having another affair. I find the first blister on Annie the morning of the Goodwins’ party. She is in the bath and the window is a blue […]