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05/09/2011
‘Green Dobermans’ is the debut collection of poetry from Liz Adams and is published by Lazy Gramophone Press this month. Liz graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2007, having previously completed the BA in English...
03/09/2011
‘The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean’ is the first novel for adults by UEA alumnus David Almond and is published by Viking this week. David (pictured) graduated from UEA in 1973 with a BA in English and American Studies, and published his f...
01/09/2011
‘Once You Break a Knuckle’ is the debut collection of short stories by UEA writer DW (Dave) Wilson and is published by Hamish Hamilton Canada this week. Dave graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2010, when he
was the i...
18/08/2011
‘Lazarus is Dead’ is the new novel by UEA alumnus Richard Beard and is published today by Harvill Secker. Richard graduated from the Creative
Writing MA in 1995 and has since published four novels: ‘X20’ (1996), ‘Damascus’ (1998), ‘T...
15/08/2011
Eight graduates of the UEA creative writing programme have been nominated for this year’s Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ prize, which is decided by public vote. They are Richard Beard (MA 1995) for ‘Lazarus is Dead’, Anne Enright (MA 1987)
fo...
15/08/2011
UEA writer Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for this year’s Vodaphone Crossword Book Award, the biggest private sector book prize in India. Her
novel ‘Saraswati Park’ is nominated in the Fiction category that fellow UEA graduate Neel Mukhe...
02/08/2011
‘Wild Abandon’ is the second novel by UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Joe graduated from UEA’s
undergraduate programme in 2004 and from the Creative Writing MA in 2005, when he was the winner of the i...
27/07/2011
‘A Heavy Breath’, a new short story by UEA graduate Elisabeth Fairchild, appears in the Summer 2011 issue of The Missouri Review. Elisabeth (pictured) was born in San Francisco and grew up among the coastal redwoods of
northern California. She...
20/07/2011
UEA Creative Writing graduate Emily Bullock has won this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize worth
£1,000 plus a £150 Waterstone’s gift card.
Emily’s story, ‘My Girl’, will be published in Venue Magazine and Bristol Review of Books as we...
07/07/2011
Recent UEA graduate Jacob Marcet has been named as one of the finalists in this year’s FOX TV-New York Television Festival Comedy Script Contest.
Originally from the US, Jacob completed his MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) at UEA in 2009. ...