Recent UEA graduate Emma Healey has signed a book deal with Viking following an auction at the London Book Fair that made headlines in the national press. Emma (pictured) is 28 and has a first degree in Bookbinding. She graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2011, and worked as a web […]
Archives for 2013
‘Firefly’ by Janette Jenkins
‘Firefly’ is the latest novel by UEA alumna Janette Jenkins and is published this week by Chatto & Windus. Janette graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1995, where she was in Malcolm Bradbury’s final class alongside Toby Litt, John Boyne, Richard Beard and Bo Fowler. Her first novel ‘Columbus Day’ was […]
SEVEN QUESTIONS: LYDIA DAVIS
UEA Masters in Creative Writing student and next year’s David TK Wong Writing Fellow Sharlene Teo attended this year’s Man Booker Prize ceremony in London, where she met this year’s winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis.
‘Time Past and Present’ by Deirdre Madden
‘Time Past and Present’ is the eighth novel by UEA alumna Deirdre Madden and has recently been published by Faber & Faber. Deirdre was born in Toomebridge in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, before joining the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1984. Her first novella, ‘Hidden Symptoms’ was written during […]
‘Apple Tree Yard’ by Louise Doughty
‘Apple Tree Yard’ is the seventh novel by UEA alumna Louise Doughty and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Louise graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1987 and published her first novel, ‘Crazy Paving’, in 1995. Her sixth novel, ‘Whatever You Love’, was published in 2011 and shortlisted for […]
Ben Lyle shortlisted for Hookline Novel Competition
UEA writer Ben Lyle has been shortlisted for the Hookline Novel Competition for his first novel, ‘The Generation of Happiness’. The competition is open only to students and graduates of MA writing courses and the winner, chosen by reading groups, will see their novel published by Hookline. The competition was won in 2011 by UEA […]
George Szirtes elected to Hungarian Academy
UEA Reader in Poetry, George Szirtes, has been elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as an Associate Fellow. The Academy comprises 48 members, with ten international associate members. Last month George (pictured) was the recipient of the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) for his translation from the Hungarian of László Krasznahorkai’s novel ‘Satantango’. Also […]
Eliza Robertson wins overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize
UEA alumna Eliza Robertson is the joint winner of the overall 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘We Walked On Water’. She will share the award of £5,000 with Sharon Miller from Trinidad and Tobago, whose story is titled ‘The Whale House’. Eliza (pictured) was born in Vancouver, Canada, and studied creative writing […]
‘The Execution of Noa P. Singleton’ by Elizabeth L. Silver
‘The Execution of Noa P. Singleton’ is the debut novel by UEA alumna Elizabeth L. Silver, and is published this month by Random House/Crown in the USA and Headline Review in the UK, among several other publishers around the world. Elizabeth (pictured) holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from […]
SEVEN QUESTIONS: James Meek
MA Prose Fiction student Lauren Rose interviews the writer and journalist James Meek.