SPOONFEED is an online literary magazine that publishes creative and experimental food writing, edited by Kat Payne Ware, a 2020 graduate of the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). Throughout December New Writing is being taken over by SPOONFEED with a collection of poems by UEA-connected writers, curated by Kat and fellow UEA alumnus Sean […]
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UEA launches Sonny Mehta scholarships for international writers
In the year of its 50th birthday celebrations the UEA Creative Writing programme has introduced two new fully-funded annual scholarships for its prestigious MA in Creative Writing. The Sonny Mehta India Scholarship and The Sonny Mehta Scholarship for Writers will be available for students from India, the Indian sub-continent, North Africa and the Middle East, […]
The Sonny Mehta Scholarships at UEA
The UEA Creative Writing MA has announced two new scholarships endowed by Gita Mehta in memory of her husband Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of US publishing house Alfred A. Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Group. The Sonny Mehta India Scholarship and The Sonny Mehta Scholarship for Writers will be available for students from India, […]
Emma Styles wins Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award
No Country For Girls by Emma Styles has been announced as this year’s Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction. The award, which is worth £3,000, is judged by a panel of Sphere Fiction editors and awarded to the best graduating student on the UEA MA in Crime Fiction. The inaugural winner in 2017 was Merle Nygate […]
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
Strange Beasts of China is a new novel by UEA alumna Yan Ge and is published this week by Tilted Axis Press. It is translated by Jeremy Tiang. Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984, and is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. She is the author of thirteen books, including […]
Sorrowful Beasts
The first chapter of Strange Beasts of China, translated by Jeremy Tiang and published by Tilted Axis Press in November 2020. The sorrowful beasts live in the north-eastern quarter of Yong’an City. As the Splendid River passes through the city centre and heads east, it separates into the Lotus and Peacock Rivers in Luoding […]
Monique Roffey shortlisted for Costa Novel Award
The Mermaid of Black Conch by UEA alumna Monique Roffey has been shortlisted in the Novel category of the Costa Book Awards. It was published by Peepal Tree Press earlier this year. Monique was born in Trinidad and graduated from UEA in 1987. Her first novel Sun Dog was published in 2002. The White Woman On The Green Bicycle, published […]
Sarah Butler co-edits Manchester Something Rich and Strange
Manchester Something Rich and Strange is a new book of writing and photographs co-edited by Paul Dobraszczyk and UEA alumna Sarah Butler and features the work of twenty-five poets, academics, writers, novelists, historians, architects and artists. It has just been published by Manchester University Press. Sarah graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Jeremy Page wins non-fiction prize at East Anglian Book Awards
New York to California by UEA alumnus Jeremy Page has won the General Non-Fiction category of the 2020 East Anglian Book Awards, a partnership between Jarrold, the Eastern Daily Press, and the National Centre for Writing. It was published by Propolis last year. Jeremy graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1994 and returned […]
Andrea Mason wins Aleph Writing Prize
‘Ada & Carter’ by UEA alumna Andrea Mason has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Aleph Writing Prize. Aleph is a London-based independent publisher of limited editions and will publish ‘Ada & Carter’ in December. Andrea (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and is currently a […]