‘This is an extraordinary place,’ 21-year-old Patricia Crampton, then Patricia Wood, writes of Nuremberg, Southern Germany to her parents in England, in a letter postmarked 5 December 1947. She describes leaving work at 5.30pm in the last stages of a bright and sunny November day, yet by 6pm it is completely dark and snowing. Back […]
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Dasein
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing Yes, I’m aware of the ketchup stain on my jumper It’s there so that I don’t have to tell you I’m struggling The whole point […]
An Ode to Uncle Roger
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing There are two types of people: those who can cook egg fried rice and those who can only try. Here is the cultural barrier: […]
BBQ
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing Two men are having a barbecue and it is so boring I can hear a potato salad being explained from two garden- widths away and […]
Jyoti Patel longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize
Recent UEA Creative Writing graduate Jyoti Patel has been longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Jyoti (pictured) was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2014 and completed the MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights by Robert Garner and Yewande Okuleye
The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights: An Intellectual History is the new book co-written by current UEA student Robert Garner with Yewande Okuleye. It is published by Oxford University Press this week. Robert is a student on the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction and is a former Professor of Politics at […]
30/4/20
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing I made a chestnut man: A round belly, inedible pulp To pat. Skinny legs made of matches. They rot on frosty nights before 1st November. […]
Flickering candies
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing I made a chestnut man: A round belly, inedible pulp To pat. Skinny legs made of matches. They rot on frosty nights before 1st November. […]
eating bread systems I
This poem is part of the SPOONFEED takeover of New Writing, curated by Kat Payne Ware and Sean Wai Keung. You can read the issue in full at spoonfeedmag.com/spoonfeed-x-new-writing …………..back in the village …………..la casa was always filled with people …………..wherever you went there was someone next to you her sisters, her brothers, her […]
Future and Form website goes live
Future and Form is the flagship project of the fiftieth anniversary of the UEA Creative Writing programme and features collaborative projects involving UEA alumni Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Mona Arshi, Tash Aw (pictured), Imogen Hermes Gowar, Mitch Johnson and James McDermott. They will work with UEA faculty, creative technologists, cultural organisations and schools to explore the relationship […]