A collaborative piece of creative critical writing, responding to notions of hospitality, music and form in Alan Hollinghurst’s novel ‘The Line of Beauty’
Archives for 2016
Slaughter and the Cat
When the miracle happened everyone saw it. People were at their windows. A thundering sound knocked them out of bed and a giant walked down the road. Purple and naked all over, the monster had blood on his hands and feet. One of the witnesses, John Slaughter (Laughter with an S) went from his curtains […]
The manager with the red tie
Translated by Kathleen Mccaul Moura. Read her contextualizing piece, ‘We Are Favela!’, in the London Review of Books. The manager with the red tie enters at noon the annexe of the restaurant in the Conjunto Nacional the manager with the red tie wears a cold grey pinstripe suit, laquered hair cosa nostra and a neutral […]
valley of the demon in the year 2003
Translated by Kathleen Mccaul Moura. Read her contextualizing piece, ‘We Are Favela!’, in the London Review of Books. Le pauvre monde est sujet à l’erreur. Laurent Tailhade, “Ballade (touchant la variété des jugements humains)” For the viaduct you see the valley of the anhanga, The ‘devil’, with his horns and tail: a gap under […]
Banshees
We got off the bus / campaign cars blaring political campaigns…
Eliza Robertson shortlisted for Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award
27-6-16 UEA author Eliza Robertson has been shortlisted the 2016 Canadian Authors Emerging Writer Award. She was also shortlisted in 2015. The award is organized by the Canadian Authors Association and the shortlists in four categories are chosen from over 300 nominations. Eliza (pictured) joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in […]
Sophie Collins and Emily Berry in relaunched Penguin Modern Poets
27-6-16 UEA alumna Sophie Collins and current PhD student Emily Berry are to be published alongside Anne Carson in the first volume of the relaunched Penguin Modern Poets series. Sophie was born in 1989 and grew up in North Holland. She studied Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, before joining the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) […]
Owl Song At Dawn by Emma Claire Sweeney
27-6-16 Owl Song At Dawn is the debut novel by UEA alumna Emma Claire Sweeney and is published by Legend Press this week. Emma graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004, and has since won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards for her writing. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent […]
Hannah Garrard highly commended for New Welsh Writing Award
23-6-16 UEA alumna Hannah Garrard has been highly commended for the 2016 New Welsh Writing Award for travel writing. Hannah (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2005 and with an MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2015. She grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Norwich, where she […]
Thomas Morris wins Somerset Maugham Award
23-6-16 UEA alumnus Thomas Morris has been awarded a Somerset Maugham Award worth £2,000 at this year’s Society of Authors Awards Ceremony for his debut collection of short stories, We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, which was published by Faber & Faber last year. Thomas (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA in 2013 and […]