Waking the Tiger is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Mark Wightman and is published by Hobeck this week. Mark grew up in the Far East – first in Hong Kong, and then in Singapore – and graduated with distinction from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) in 2018. Previously he gained an MSc […]
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Mariama Ives-Moiba wins BAFTA Rocliffe Family & YA Media Award
UEA alumna Mariama Ives-Moiba has won a BAFTA Rocliffe Family & YA Media Award for her animated series for 8-11 year olds, Aminah’s African Adventure. Mariama (pictured), who is of British and Sierra Leonean heritage, graduated from the BA in History at UEA in 2015 and from the MA in Scriptwriting in 2017. She was […]
Invisible Sun by Richard Skinner
Invisible Sun is a new collection of poetry by UEA graduate Richard Skinner and is published this week by Smokestack Books. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1996 and is the author of three novels published by Faber: The Red Dancer (2002), The Velvet Gentleman (2008) and The Mirror (2014). His poems have been shortlisted for […]
John Bengan joins UEA as David T.K. Wong Fellow
John Bengan has been appointed as the 2021-22 David T.K. Wong Writing Fellow at UEA. He is a writer and translator from the Philippines and received an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City. His works have appeared in Likhaan, Kritika Kultura, Cha, Anomaly, Words Without Borders, LIT, Shenandoah, and World Literature […]
Wife of Osiris
An extract from Meryl Pugh’s pamphlet, Wife of Osiris, published by Verve Poetry Press in May 2021. She dreamt, she remembers, the night she signed the contract. Something about a bathtub, something about a surgical saw. She stares at the tunnel wall. The platform is deserted. Something about her leg. If she […]
Deepa Anappara shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by UEA alumna Deepa Anappara has been shortlisted for the 2021 Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for 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 UEA for her […]
Trevor Wood shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize
The Man on the Street by UEA Creative Writing alumnus Trevor Wood has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors Paul Torday Memorial Prize for the best first novel by a writer over sixty. It was the winner of the 2020 Crime Writers Association (CWA) John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and is currently also longlisted […]
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
The Kingdoms is the new novel by UEA alumna Natasha Pulley and is published by Bloomsbury in the UK this week. Natasha studied English Literature at Oxford University and graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012, after which she completed a nineteen-month Daiwa Fellowship in Tokyo, Japan. Her first novel […]
Sign Language for the Death of Reason by Linda Collins
Sign Language for the Death of Reason is the debut collection of poetry by current UEA student Linda Collins and has recently been published by Math Paper Press in Singapore. It is a poetic response to her memoir, Loss Adjustment, about the death by suicide of her daughter, which was published by Awa Press in 2019. […]
Out of the Shadows
An extract from Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice by Emily Midorikawa, which is published by Counterpoint Press in the USA and UK in May 2021. Seen and Not Heard One warm spring evening in 1853, Queen Victoria was staying at Osborne House, her opulent holiday […]