The UEA Literary Festival was founded in 1991 and this academic year we celebrate 30 years of live literature at the university. Now known as UEA Live, the Spring 2021 season featured this event with UEA’s inaugural International Professor of Creative Writing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, in conversation with Ella Wakatama. Visit the UEA Live website here: […]
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L.E. Yates shortlisted for Costa Short Story Prize
‘Sunblock’ by UEA alumna L.E.Yates has been shortlisted for this year’s Costa Short Story Prize. Originally from Manchester, L.E. now lives in East London and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2006. Her short stories have appeared in a range of publications including Litro, Gertrude and Clav Mag. She has been an […]
Dead End Street by Trevor Wood
Dead End Street is the new novel by UEA alumnus Trevor Wood and has just been published by Quercus. Trevor graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2017 and published his first novel The Man on the Street with Quercus in 2019. This was followed by One Way Street in 2021. Trevor previously served in […]
A Terrible Kindness
The opening of A Terrible Kindness, the debut novel by Jo Browning Wroe, published by Faber on 20 January 2022 1 OCTOBER 1966 Something dreadful happened in Wales yesterday, but it was William’s graduation and so he has been distracted. He left the Thames College of Embalming with outstanding and unprecedented results. Tonight is the […]
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
A Terrible Kindness is the debut novel by UEA alumna Jo Browning Wroe and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Jo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003 and is now Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. A Terrible Kindness was previously shortlisted for the Bridport Peggy Chapman-Andrews award, […]
Just Another Liar by Mandy Byatt
Just Another Liar is the debut novel by current UEA student Mandy Byatt and is published by Avon this week. Mandy is in the second year of her MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) while working in marketing and communications. She has previously been shortlisted in the Gransnet/HQ novel competition and Woman & Home short story […]
Two poems
Blue Air The blue sky of downtown later and forever ………….marked by inexplicable machine boom breaking steel, cracked fires flaring ………….and blue turned to running ash as if a B-movie whipping buildings, ………….stray workers, a chrome hot-dog stand toppled on its side. But this blue is not ………….the same blue as our blue sky of […]
The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor
The Acts of Oblivion is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumnus Paul Batchelor and has recently been published by Carcanet. Paul graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2000. His first collection The Sinking Road was published by Bloodaxe in 2008 and shortlisted for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize and the […]
Helen Baczkowska shortlisted for Nan Shepherd Prize
Common Place by recent UEA graduate Helen Baczkowska was shortlisted for the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing. Helen graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2021. She is an ecologist, writer and environmental activist living in rural Norfolk and regularly writes articles on local wildlife for Norfolk publications and for The Land magazine. […]
The Apple and the Tree by Marina Mahathir
The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir’s Daughter is the new memoir by UEA alumna Marina Mahathir and has recently been published by Penguin Random House. Marina graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2019. She served as the President of the Malaysian AIDS Council between 1993 and 2005, and […]