The Atom (From The Sea by Jules Michelet) Translated by Matthew Redman One day, a fisherman gave me the dregs of his catch from the bottom of his net – three creatures in all, and all of them nearly dead: an urchin, a starfish, and another star, a pretty ophiure, which was still moving but […]
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2021 Scriptwriting MA anthology: foreword
Tilly Lunken’s foreword to UEA’s 2021 Scriptwriting MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE. Reflection. It’s what writing does. It looks backwards, forwards, inside and out. It distorts or reveals truth, but it contains in essence part of us. As a writer and a reader. Who we are informs how we receive it, […]
A Dead Russian in Osaka
An extract from Denise Kuehl’s debut novel, Duality – A Dead Russian in Osaka. Saturday early evening A warehouse in the Osaka Bay area had been granted a second lease on life. From the outside, not much had changed. The external façade did not stand out among its gray surroundings, but an enormous […]
The Backroom Boys
Shantelle’s current project concerns her great uncle, Louis Washkansky, who was the recipient of the world’s first heart transplant in South Africa in 1967. She is writing this story from a new angle, involving the recipient (Washkansky), the young woman whose heart was used in the ground-breaking procedure, as well as a group of black […]
HARPY/ HERRING/ HORSE/ HUMAN
An extract from Alexander Wiseman’s postgraduate dissertation of four short plays, HARPY/HERRING/HORSE/HUMAN. A dining/living room space set up for Christmas dinner. An old harpoon hung on the wall. An armchair in the corner, facing outwards. MARLIN (60s) sits in it – tense, gaunt. A few moments. A stagnant evening hum. DORY (60s) enters, wearing […]
Three poems
Three poems from Maya Hough’s dissertation collection, ‘i’m going to miss this’. artifact made by hand, my dad’s work stained with mum’s bad news. we eat here, we cry here, we laugh, we tell stories. is a table valuable? something to keep when everything must go? marked with memory and […]
She Visits
An extract from Polly Halladay’s short story, She Visits. SHE VISITS You were either a believer or you weren’t, at first. Psychiatric hospitals filled; the emergency services were overwhelmed. Cults formed and were broken. Schools closed and opened. Then there were national polls and social media surveys trying to keep track of those […]
Gboyega Odubanjo wins Michael Marks Poetry Award
Aunty Uncle Poems by UEA alumnus Gboyega Odubanjo has won the 2021 Michael Marks Poetry Award for poetry pamphlets. It was published by Poetry Business earlier this year, having been one of the four winners of the 2020 Poetry Business New Poet’s Prize. Gboyega (pictured) gained a BA in English & Philosophy at UEA in 2017 […]
Three poems
INHIBITION i am always carrying / a bag for life filled with weeds, expected recipes the bludgeoned berries of someone else’s feelings yes, i carry messages / from your eyes to this pigeon-toed heart of mine but at night words split us open and we lick up the cut talk carries / […]
Everything Everything
An extract from a novel-in-progress, centred on two women’s search for independence and identity amidst the confines of privilege and duty, set in 1980s Philippines under the Marcos administration. Chapter 12 Everything Everything Isabel Isabel couldn’t eat any more fried rice. But she made herself raise the spoon to her mouth, smiling before […]