Future and Form – 21- 30 May, 2021 Six writers. Six works. Six visions of a literary future. Marking its 50 year anniversary, UEA’s world-renowned MA in Creative Writing programme presents, as part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2021, six new multidisciplinary, experimental works that explore the interface between contemporary literature and creative technology. “The […]
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Lunch
‘Lunch’ is a story from Anna Wood’s debut collection Yes Yes More More, published by Indigo Press and available at all good bookshops, including this one The tablecloth is thick white cotton. Two wine glasses and cloth napkins, the sun shining in and everything crisp and sparkling. Frank is looking at the menu. He […]
Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal
Circus of Wonders is the new novel by UEA alumna Elizabeth Macneal and is published by Picador this week. Elizabeth grew up in Edinburgh and read English Literature at Oxford University, where she was a Buccleugh Scholar. After working in the City for several years she joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at […]
Out of The Shadows by Emily Midorikawa
Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice is the new book by UEA alumna Emily Midorikawa and is published by Counterpoint Press this week. Emily graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2005 and now teaches on the writing programme at New York University, London. […]
Women on Nature, edited by Katharine Norbury
Women on Nature: 100 Voices on Place Landscape and the Natural World is a new anthology of British and Irish nature writing by women edited by UEA alumna Katharine Norbury. It is published this week by Unbound after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Katharine graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011 and […]
Tessa McWatt shortlisted for Governor General’s Literary Awards
Shame On Me by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has been shortlisted for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards in the Non-Fiction category. Tessa (pictured) is the author of six novels, most recently, Higher Ed (Scribe 2015), and two books for young people. Her new novel The Snow Line will be published by Scribe in July […]
Trevor Wood longlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year
The Man on the Street by UEA Creative Writing alumnus Trevor Wood has been longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year. It was previously the winner of the 2020 Crime Writers Association (CWA) John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award, an award for the best crime novel by a first-time author. Trevor graduated […]
John Boyne longlisted for Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by UEA alumnus John Boyne has been longlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel. The novel was published by Penguin Random House last year. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in […]
The Anthill
An extract from Julianne Pachico’s debut novel, The Anthill, published in the UK by Faber & Faber in May 2021 —I love feeling like I’m in danger, the Welsh girl tells her as they rattle up the hill. When I was in Brazil and went into the favelas, I’ve never felt more alive. There were guys […]
Jonathan Gibbs longlisted for Sunday Times/Audible Short Story Award
‘A Prolonged Kiss’ by UEA alumnus Jonathan Gibbs has been longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times/Audible Short Story Award, the world’s richest short story prize. Jonathan (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2009 and received his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2014. He is the author of […]