‘Strangers On A Train’ by current UEA student Craig Warner is a stage adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith and will be performed at the Gielgud Theatre in London from 2nd November. The production stars Laurence Fox, Jack Huston and Imogen Stubbs and is directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. Craig (pictured) is currently completing […]
Archives for 2013
‘A Tiny Speck of Black And Then Nothing’ by Emily Midorikawa
‘A Tiny Speck of Black And Then Nothing’ is the first novel by UEA alumna Emily Midorikawa and has achieved third place out of 346 entries in the novel category of the Yeovil Literary Prize, judged by novelist Tracy Chevalier. Emily (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2005 and currently teaches […]
The Novel Cure by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
‘The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies’ is an alternative medical handbook and literary guidebook by UEA alumna Susan Elderkin and her friend Ella Berthoud and has recently been published by Canongate. Ella and Susan (pictured) met as English Literature students at Cambridge University before Susan joined the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1993. […]
Andrew Cowan, Henry Sutton, George Szirtes and Helen Ivory shortlisted for East Anglian Book Award
Four UEA writers have been shortlisted for this year’s East Anglian Book Awards, sponsored by the Eastern Daily Press and Jarrold department store. Andrew Cowan and Henry Sutton are nominated in the Fiction category, judged by the administrator of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Ion Trewin, while George Szirtes and Helen Ivory are nominated […]
Kathryn Simmonds awarded Charles Causley residency
UEA alumna Kathryn Simmonds is to be the inaugural Charles Causley Poet in Residence, based in Launceston, Cornwall, where the late Charles Causley’s house is being renovated for future residencies with assistance from Arts Council England, Cornwall Council, Literature Works and Launceston Town Council. Kathryn (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in […]
Amanda Hodgkinson wins Readers’ Choice Award
’22 Britannia Road’, the debut novel by UEA alumna Amanda Hodgkinson, has been awarded the Readers’ Choice Trophy in association with the New Angle Prize for East Anglian Literature. Amanda (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. The trophy is sponsored by the East Anglian Daily Times, and hers was […]
‘The Silent Tide’ by Rachel Hore
‘The Silent Tide’ is the latest novel by UEA tutor in Creative Writing Rachel Hore and is published by Simon & Schuster this month. Rachel’s previous novel, ‘A Gathering Storm’, was shortlisted in the Historical Romance category of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Rachel (pictured) worked in publishing for several years and […]
Opening new windows
‘Translations aren’t mirrors of an original text; they are windows into other worlds.’ An author’s view of the BCLT Summer School.
Emanuel
“There were two suicide notes,” Edward explained. “One for you, and one for you.”
New novel by Nigel Gray
‘His Story – A Novel Memoir – The Life and Times of Dick O’Toole’ is the new novel by UEA alumnus Nigel Gray and has recently been published by Fontaine Press in Australia. Nigel graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1983 and is the author of ninety published works that have been translated […]