UEA alumnus Luke Allan has won this year’s Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry at the Belfast Book Festival. Luke (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2009 and is currently the poetry editor at Partus Press and co-editor of the magazines Pain and Oxford Poetry. A former managing editor at Carcanet Press and PN Review, his poems are […]
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Fflur Dafydd shortlisted for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Media Festival
UEA alumna Fflur Dafydd has been shortlisted for the Best Drama Series award at the Celtic Media Festival for 35 Diwrnod, her Welsh-language drama series which is now in its fourth series for S4C. Fflur writes across genres in both her native Welsh and in English. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose […]
Shocked Earth
An extract from Shocked Earth by Saskia Goldschmidt, translated from Dutch by UEA alumna Antoinette Fawcett and published by Saraband in May 2021; the original novel, Schokland, was published by Cossee in 2018. MARCH 2017 The sky is grey and dull. The vague contours of the old brick factory and its dilapidated chimney loom […]
Erin Soros wins National Magazine Award
UEA alumna Erin Soros has won a Gold Award in Canada’s National Magazine Awards for her short story ‘Cord’, which was published in The Malahat Review in 2020. She is the winner in the category of One of a Kind Storytelling and will receive $1,000. Erin (pictured) graduated from the PhD in Creative & Critical […]
Windswept by Annabel Abbs
Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women is the new book by UEA alumna Annabel Abbs and has just been published by Two Roads Books, an imprint of John Murray Press. Annabel graduated from UEA in 1987 with a BA in English Literature, after which she established a successful marketing consultancy. Her debut novel, […]
Gboyega Odubanjo and Michael Askew win Eric Gregory Awards
Two UEA alumni, Gboyega Odubanjo and Michael Askew, have been awarded Eric Gregory Awards at the Society of Authors annual prize-giving ceremony. The award recognises a poetry collection by an author under age of thirty, and is worth £4050 to each author. Gboyega (pictured) was awarded his prize for Aunty Uncle Poems, which was also […]
Deepa Anappara runner-up for the McKitterick Prize
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by UEA alumna Deepa Anappara has been named as the runner-up for the 2021 Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, which recognises the best first novel by an author over the age of forty. Deepa graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017 and is currently studying at […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga awarded PEN Pinter Prize
UEA’s inaugural International Chair in Creative Writing, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, has been named as the winner of the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize, which is awarded annually to a writer resident in Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or former Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an […]
Vijay Khurana and Luke Allan shortlisted for Mairtín Crawford Awards
Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for this year’s Mairtín Crawford Awards at the Belfast Book Festival. Vijay Khurana is nominated for the Short Story Award and Luke Allan for the Poetry Award. Vijay (pictured) graduated in 2019 from the MFA in Creative Writing at UEA, and has twice been shortlisted for the Galley Beggar […]
Pringle and a Free Press
An extract from Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall, published by Penguin Random House in March 2021 A library, liberty and Thomas Pringle in the Cape Perhaps one of the most incongruous aspects of Lord Charles Somerset’s governorship of the Cape Colony was his […]