A Crooked Rib is the third novel by UEA alumna Judy Corbalis and has recently been published by Random House in New Zealand. Judy graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1990 and is the author of eight books for children. Her first novel for adults, Tapu, was published in 1996 and her […]
Archives for 2015
Rob Magnuson Smith wins Jolley Prize
UEA alumnus Rob Magnuson Smith was yesterday named at the Brisbane Writers Festival as the winner of the 2015 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. His story ‘The Elector of Nossnearly’ was selected from 1,200 entries for the prize, which is worth $5,000 to the winner. Rob (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative […]
Terms by Ben Lyle
Terms is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Ben Lyle and is published by Hookline Books today. Ben has worked in the film industry for the last fifteen years, while also completing the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA, from which he graduated in 2010 before going on to complete a PhD in […]
‘Beneath the Earth’ by John Boyne
Beneath the Earth is the first collection of short stories by UEA alumnus John Boyne and is published by Doubleday today. The collection includes ‘Rest Day’, which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and was that year’s recipient of the […]
HBO acquires rights to All Involved by Ryan Gattis
The American television company HBO has acquired the TV rights to All Involved, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Ryan Gattis. Subtitled A Novel Of The 1992 LA Riots, All Involved was published in the UK earlier this year by Picador. Ryan (pictured) was born in Illinois, USA, and raised in Colorado. He graduated from […]
The Crossing by Andrew Miller
The Crossing is the new novel by UEA alumnus Andrew Miller and is published by Sceptre this week. Andrew (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1990, and published his first novel Ingenious Pain in 1997. This went on to win the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award as well as the James Tait Black […]
Tasha Kavanagh shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize
Things We Have in Common, the debut novel by UEA alumna Tasha Kavanagh, has been included on the shortlist of six titles in contention for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize. All the nominated novels, as well as the eventual winner, are selected by readers of the newspaper. Tasha (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA […]
We Don’t Know What We’re Doing by Thomas Morris
We Don’t Know What We’re Doing is the debut collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Thomas Morris and is published by Faber and Faber this week. Thomas graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013 and wrote most of the stories in the collection while completing his MA. In 2013 he was also […]
Seven Days in August
And they had been worried that she might catch a cold.
Solitude
Perhaps they could go and live there, with Kolk as a bogeyman to scare the natives.