‘My Criminal World’ is the new novel by UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Henry Sutton and has just been published by Harvill Secker. Henry is the co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction). He is the author of five previous novels, most recently ‘Get Me Out Of Here’ (2011), a collection of […]
Archives for 2013
Naomi Alderman and Adam Foulds in Granta’s 20 Best
UEA alumni Naomi Alderman and Adam Foulds have been included in Granta’s magazine’s list of the twenty best young British novelists under the age of forty. Naomi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. Her first novel, ‘Disobedience’ (2006) won the Sunday Times Young writer of the Year Award and […]
Rose Tremain appointed as Chancellor of UEA
UEA alumna Rose Tremain has been appointed as the University’s new Chancellor, succeeding Sir Brandon Gough, who died last year. Rose (pictured) was mong the earliest students to study at UEA, graduating with a BA in English in 1967. During her degree she was taught by both Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury, and later returned […]
Andrew Miller shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
UEA alumnus Andrew Miller has been shortlisted for this year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel ‘Pure’. The award is worth €100,000 to the winner, and ‘Pure’ is the only British title to be nominated. The winner will be announced on 6th June. Andrew (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1990, […]
Ashley Stokes longlisted for Frank O’Connor Short Story Award
UEA alumnus Ashley Stokes has been longlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for his debut collection ‘The Syllabus of Errors’, which was published by Unthank Books earlier this year. Ashley (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1997. He has published short fiction and reviews in a number […]
Jonathan Gibbs shortlisted for White Review Short Story Prize
‘The Story I’m Thinking Of’ by UEA student Jonathan Gibbs has been shortlisted for the first annual White Review Short Story Prize. Supported by the Jerwood Foundation, and worth £2,500 to the winner, the prize is judged by Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, literary agent Karolina Sutton and editor Alex Bowler. The winner will be announced […]
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
UEA Creative Writing alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro has been announced at the winner of the 2013 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. Previous winners of the award include Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison, and fellow UEA alumnus Ian McEwan. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to England at an […]
THREE POEMS
Poetry from current MA Creative Writing (Poetry) student Jennifer Grey
THREE POEMS
Three poems by the Bridport Prize-shortlisted poet, Matthew Spence
Amanda Hodgkinson shortlisted for New Angle Prize
‘22 Britannia Road’, the debut novel by UEA graduate Amanda Hodgkinson, has been shortlisted for the third biennial New Angle Prize for Literature. The award is worth £2,000 and celebrates fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction set in or inspired by the East Anglian region. Amanda (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2001 […]