Three UEA alumni and a current UEA student and tutor have been shortlisted for the 2022 East Anglian Book Awards. Iron Man by Lynne Bryan, who graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1985, is one of three titles shortlisted in the Biography & Memoir category; Your Show by Ashley Hickson-Lovence, who is completing his PhD in Creative & Critical Writing while teaching on the Creative Writing MA, is nominated in the Fiction category; Spark by Mitch Johnson, who graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2014, is nominated for The Mal Peet Children’s Award; and The Great Thorpe Railway Disaster 1874 by Phyllida Scrivens, who graduated from the MA in Biography & Creative Non-Fiction in 2014, is shortlisted in the History & Tradition category. The East Anglian Book Awards celebrate books published in the East of England and are organised by Jarrolds, the Eastern Daily Press and the National Centre for Writing. The winning book in each category will compete for the Book of the Year Award, sponsored by the PACCAR Foundation, and worth £1000 to the winner.