When I Wake Up by Seth Fishman and Jessixa Bagley When I Wake Up is the new picture book for children by UEA alumnus Seth Fishman and is published by Greenwillow Books, with illustrations by Jessixa Bagley. Seth was born and raised in Texas and graduated from Princeton University before joining the UEA MA in […]
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Richard Lambert wins Mal Peet Award
The Wolf Road by UEA alumnus Richard Lambert has won the Mal Peet Children’s Award at the East Anglian Book Awards. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and published his debut collection of poetry, Night Journey, in 2012. His second collection, The Nameless Places, was published by Arc in 2017 and was […]
John Boyne shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year Award
The Echo Chamber by UEA alumnus John Boyne has been shortlisted for the Eason Novel of the Year Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards, which is decided by public vote. It was published Doubleday earlier this year. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing […]
Kim Sherwood to write James Bond trilogy
UEA alumna Kim Sherwood has been commissioned by HarperCollins to write a trilogy of new James Bond novels. The first title will be published in September 2022. Kim (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2011 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012. She […]
Four poems
Four poems from Tenderloin, the debut pamphlet of poetry by Al Anderson, published by Blush in November 2021 and available in UK bookshops or direct from the publisher here. Common tendencies despair so cute I resigned myself to writing YA fiction would that my face were passed thru a thicc pane of glass […]
Seesaw by Timothy Ogene
Seesaw is the new novel by UEA alumnus Timothy Ogene and is published by Swift Press this week. Timothy was raised on the outskirts of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria and has since lived in Liberia, Germany, the UK and the US, where he is a Lecturer in African Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard. He […]
Alan Murrin shortlisted for the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
‘The Wake’ by UEA alumnus Alan Murrin has been shortlisted for the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year competition. It was first published in Waves of Change (Fresher Publishing). Originally from Donegal, Alan (pictured) studied English Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2017. Now […]
Yan Ge longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Strange Beasts of China by UEA alumna Yan Ge has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. It was translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang and published by Tilted Axis Press in 2020. Yan (pictured) was born in Sichuan, China in 1984, and is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. […]
Adrienne Wilkinson highly commended in Bridport Poetry competition
‘eating god for breakfast’ by UEA student Adrienne Wilkinson has been Highly Commended in the 2021 Bridport Poetry competition. Adrienne (pictured) is poetry editor at Asylum, a radical mental health magazine, and a current student on the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. Her debut pamphlet, repeating mouths, was published by Broken Sleep Books […]
staircase by Zein Sa’dedin
staircase is the debut pamphlet of poetry by UEA alumna Zein Sa’dedin and has recently been published by ignitionpress. Zein is a Jordanian poet, editor and educator who graduated from the UEA BA English Literature and Creative Writing in 2017 before completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. Her work […]