‘Due to a series of misjudgements on my part’ by UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne has been commended in the 2019 National Poetry Competition. The poem is published on The Poetry Society website. Joe (pictured) graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2004 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2005. His debut novel Submarine was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award in 2012. His latest novel is The Adulterants. His short stories have been published in The Paris Review, the Guardian and McSweeney’s, and last year he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. A collection of his poems, O Positive, was published in 2019 by Faber & Faber