Recent UEA graduate Janice Okoh has won the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting for her
play ‘Three Birds’. Janice (pictured) graduated from the Scriptwriting strand of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing in 2008, and was one of twelve writers sel…
UEA Creative Writing
Martyn Bedford shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award
UEA alumnus Martyn Bedford has been included on the shortlist of four for the 2012 Costa Children’s Book Award. Martyn (pictured) is nominated for ‘Flip’, his first novel for young adults, which was published by Walker Books earlier this year. A …
Andrew Miller shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
UEA alumnus Andrew Miller has been included on the shortlist of four for the 2012 Costa Novel Award. Andrew (pictured) is nominated for his sixth novel, ‘Pure’, which was published by Sceptre earlier this year. He graduated from the Prose
Fict…
Christie Watson shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award
Recent UEA graduate Christie Watson has been included on the shortlist of four for the 2012 Costa First Novel Award. Christie (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2008 and published her first novel, ‘Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away’,
with…
Four UEA Authors longlisted for Impac Dublin Award
Four graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA are among the authors longlisted for the 2012 International Impac Dublin Literary Award, which is worth 100,000 euros to the winner, making it the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of f…
Meghan Purvis wins The Times Stephen Spender Prize
UEA writer Meghan Purvis has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Meghan came to England from Fresno, UEA, to take the Creative Writing Prose MA at UEA in 2005 and completed her
PhD in Cre…
Esther Morgan shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize
UEA writer Esther Morgan has been shortlist for this year’s T.S. Eliot Prize for her third collection of poetry, ‘Grace’, which has just been published by
Bloodaxe Books. Esther graduted from the Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 1997 and subs…
Gayle O’Brien wins Hookline Novel Competition
UEA graduate Gayle O’Brien has won the 2011 Hookline Novel Competition for her novel for young
adults, ‘Underground’. Gayle (pictured) grew up in rural New England and moved to the UK in 1999 after gaining a BA in Literature from Sarah Lawre…
Helon Habila edits ‘Granta Book of the African Short Story’
UEA writer Helon Habila is the editor of the recently published ‘Granta Book of the African Short Story’, which includes work by twenty-nine writers
representing twenty countries. Helon (pictured) came to UEA as a Writing Fellow in 2004 and su…
Alex Ivey longlisted for Mslexia competition
Recent UEA graduate Alex Ivey has been longlisted for the Mslexia Women’s Novel Competion. Alex
(pictured) moved to England from the USA in 1999 and worked in the voluntary sector managing older people’s services before graduating from UEA’s…