Waste Extractions is a new fiction pamphlet by UEA alumna Andrea Mason and is published by Broken Sleep Books this week. Andrea graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and gained a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, London, in 2020. In 2018 her novel, The Cremation Project, was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and longlisted for the Dzanc Fiction Prize. It will be published by Bearded Badger Publishing later this year. Andrea is the founder and director of Literary Kitchen, which offers Creative Writing courses, events and consultancy services. She is a Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies for the University of the Arts, London. Her short story ‘Ada & Carter’ was the winner of the 2020 Aleph Writing Prize and published as a limited edition in 2020. She was also shortlisted for the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize.