MA Prose Fiction student Elizabeth Briggs interviews poet Ruth Padel.
Archives for 2013
EARLY SPRING IN TOKYO
BCLT’s International Programme Director, Kate Griffin, describes her recent visit to the inaugural Tokyo International Literary Festival.
CREATIVE AND CREATIVE-CRITICAL WRITING: SOME METAPHORS
Creative, or critical? Jonathan Gibbs, a current PhD student on UEA’s Creative-critical writing programme, examines the relationship between the two approaches.
MY CRIMINAL WORLD
An extract from Henry Sutton’s new novel My Criminal World, published by Random House and available now.
Eliza Robertson wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Canada & Europe)
Recent UEA graduate Eliza Robertson has won the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Canada & Europe region. Her story ‘We Walked On Water’ is now in contention for the overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize, along with the winners of the Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Pacific regions. The prize is awarded for the best […]
Sally Campbell and Krishan Coupland shortlisted for Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize
Debut novels by two UEA writers have been included in the shortlist of five titles for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize for currently unrepresented novelists. Sally Campbell graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and is nominated for her novel ‘Burnt Island’. Krishan Coupland is a current student on the Creative […]
Marathon by Claire Powell on Radio 4
‘Marathon’, a new short story by UEA alumna Claire Powell, is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this coming Sunday, 19th May, at 19.45. Claire (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012 and was awarded both the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary and the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant for best […]
Meadhbh Ní Eadhra wins The Moth Short Story Prize
‘Ghosties’, a short story by current UEA Creative Writing student Meadhbh Ní Eadhra, has won this year’s The Moth Short Story Prize, judged by novelist and poet Martina Evans. The prize is worth €1,000. Meadhbh (pictured) is from Galway and is the author of two award-winning Irish language books for young people, ‘Rua’ and ‘Fáinne […]
‘Goldfish’ by Jennifer Wong
‘Goldfish’ is the new collection of poetry by UEA alumna Jennifer Wong and has recently been published by Chameleon Press. Jennifer (pictured) was born in Hong Kong and has taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2012 she was writer-in-residence at Lingnan University and represented Hong Kong at the Poetry Parnassus […]
George Szirtes wins Best Translated Book Award
UEA Reader in Poetry, George Szirtes, has won this year’s Best Translated Book Award for his translation from the Hungarian of László Krasznahorkai’s novel ‘Satantango’, which is published by Atlantic in the UK and New Directions in the USA. The award is worth $5,000 and was announced at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York on Friday. […]