The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story is a memoir by UEA alumna Christie Watson and is published by Chatto & Windus this week. Christie trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked in nursing for twenty years. She graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2007, when she […]
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Wrestliana by Toby Litt
Wrestliana is a new work of non-fiction by UEA alumnus Toby Litt and is published by Galley Beggar Press this week. Toby graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He is the author of nine novels and […]
Deepa Anappara, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore and Lauren Van Schaik shortlisted for Lucy Cavendish Prize
Three UEA Creative Writing students and alumni have been shortlisted for the 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for unpublished female authors. They are: Deepa Anappara for Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line; Poppy Sebag-Montefiore for Listeners; and Lauren Van Schaik for Joplin. Deepa graduated from the MA in Creative Writing last year and is currently doing a PhD […]
Imogen Hermes Gowarshortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, the debut novel by UEA alumna Imogen Hermes Gowar, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is worth £30,000 to the winner. Imogen graduated from UEA with a BA in Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History in 2012 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Jenny Karlsson shortlisted forThe White Review Short Story Prize
‘Love & Accommodation’ by UEA alumna Jenny Karlsson has been shortlisted for the year’s The White Review Short Story Prize, which is worth £2,500 to the winner. Jenny (pictured) grew up in a steel town in Swedish Lapland and worked in factories in Leicester before joining the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010. She graduated in […]
Jane Harris shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Sugar Money by UEA graduate Jane Harris has been shortlisted for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner and £1,000 to each shortlisted author. Jane graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992 and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995. Her […]
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life is a new memoir by UEA alumna Rose Tremain and has just been published by Chatto & Windus. Rose graduated from UEA with a BA in English in 1967 and later returned to the university to teach on the Creative Writing MA and, more recently, to become the University’s […]
Break.up by Joanna Walsh
Break.up is the new work of fiction by Joanna Walsh and is published by Semiotext(e) and Tuskar Rock this week. Joanna is completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA, exploring the possibilities of digital narrative. She is a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and Catapult.co, and has previously published her work in […]
Ponti by Sharlene Teo
Ponti is the debut novel by UEA alumna Sharlene Teo and is published by Picador this week. Originally from Singapore, Sharlene graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2013, when she was the recipient of that year’s Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. She subsequently became the David T K Wong Creative Writing Fellow […]
Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition by Matthew De Abaitua
Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition is a new memoir by UEA alumnus Matthew De Abaitua and has recently been published by Eye Books. Matthew was born in Liverpool in 1971 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1994, after which he lived and worked as Will Self’s amanuensis in a remote […]