Come Join Our Disease by UEA alumnus Sam Byers has been shortlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize, which is worth £5,000 to the winner and rewards ‘literature that is forward-thinking and fearless in both ambition and execution’. It was published by Faber & Faber earlier this year. Sam graduated from the MA in Creative Writing […]
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Speed of Lightness
Speed of Lightness is the revised edition of Barrie Sherwood’s second novel Escape to Amsterdam and has just been published by Penguin Random House SEA. This anime of extracts from the novel has been illustrated by Saku and features music by Huey Daze and Hazy Year. It is narrated by Joe O’Connell of Beyond Ghibli, who also provides […]
A Life in 16 Films
The preface from A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made A Playwright by Steve Waters I defied the injunctions for one day only. I had a feeling that the experience of going to the cinema was about to vanish as the pandemic advanced. Poorly cleaned cinemas with recycled air seemed perfectly designed for […]
Fermi’s Progress by Chris Farnell
Fermi’s Progress is a sequence of four science fiction novellas by UEA alumnus Chris Farnell, which are being published this year at three-monthly intervals by the independent e-publisher Scarlet Ferret. Chris graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2005 and published his debut work, a YA science fiction novel Mark […]
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
The Echo Chamber is the new novel by UEA alumnus John Boyne and has just been published Doubleday. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2004, and as a tutor on the Creative Writing MA in 2014. A recipient of the Curtis Brown […]
Vijay Khurana shortlisted for Bristol Prize
‘Follower’ by UEA alumnus Vijay Khurana has been shortlisted for the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize. Earlier this month he was named as one of the four winners of Australia’s Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition for his story ‘The Menaced Assassin’, which will be published in Griffith Review later this year. Vijay (pictured) graduated in 2019 from the MFA […]
Amaan Hyder shortlisted for 4thWrite Prize
‘Postpositions’ by UEA alumnus Amaan Hyder has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, which is run by 4th Estate Books in association with the Guardian and is open to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers. Amaan (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2006 and is the author of the poetry collection At Hajj (Penned […]
Nick Bradley longlisted for Diverse Book Awards
UEA alumnus Nick Bradley has been longlisted for the 2021 Diverse Book Awards for his debut novel, The Cat and the City, which was published by Atlantic in June 2020. It was previously longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Nick was born in Germany in 1982 and grew up in Bath. He worked as a teacher, […]
Kazuo Ishiguro longlisted for Booker Prize
Klara and the Sun by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro has been longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. It was published by Faber & Faber earlier this year. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of seven other novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982), which won the Winifred Holtby Prize; An […]
The Live Album
Two sonnets from The Live Album by Kat Payne Ware, published by Broken Sleep Books on 31 July 2021 TRANSPORTATION The fragility, juiciness, desirability and proper taste and smell of meat are the most important qualities of pork for the consumer. – Urszula Ostaszewska, ‘The impact of transport on the quality of pig meat’ […]