American novelist Jonathan Franzen will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Tuesday, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby and give a reading from his new novel Purity. Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and is the author of four previous novels: The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), The […]
Archives for 2015
This Is Kandinsky by Annabel Howard
This Is Kandinsky, a graphic biography of the Russian-born artist, is the first book by UEA alumnus Annabel Howard and is published this week by Laurence King. Annabel (pictured) attended Christ Church College, Oxford before graduating from the MA in Lifewriting at UEA in 2010. She is currently working on a collection of interlinked essays […]
Emma Healey and Vendela Vida at UEA literary festival
UEA alumna Emma Healey and American novelist Vendela Vida will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday, when they will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby and give readings from their work. Emma graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011 and published her first novel Elizabeth is […]
Rawblood by Catriona Ward
Rawblood is the debut novel by UEA alumna Catriona Ward and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Catriona was born in Washington DC and grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA […]
If Then by Matthew De Abaitua
If Then is the new novel by UEA alumnus Matthew De Abaitua and was published earlier this month by Angry Robots Books. Matthew was born in Liverpool in 1971 and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1994, after which he lived and worked as Will Self’s amanuensis in a remote cottage in Suffolk. Matthew’s first novel, […]
Life Support
A hospital where even the vending machine doesn’t work. She’d have seen it as a bad omen, if she’d believed in such things. Which she didn’t.
Death by hunger
For a long time, I don’t even remember how long, I’ve lived in abstract places.
Caucasian Foxtrot
His trousers are pulled down and shirt lifted; beneath his hairy, wobbling belly, he holds a red cockerel in both hands, swinging it from side to side…
Jeremy Page shortlisted for BBC National Short Story Award.
‘Do It Now, Jump the Table’ by UEA alumnus Jeremy Page has been shortlisted for the 2015 BBC National Short Story Award, which is worth £15,000 to the winner. The runner-up will receive £3,000, with the three further shortlisted authors winning £500 each. Also shortlisted is Frances Leviston, who was a Teaching Fellow at UEA in […]
Rawblood
An extract from Catriona Ward’s forthcoming novel, Rawblood.