‘Lots’ a story by UEA alumnus Leeor Ohayon has been shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Leeor (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2022 and is currently studying on the Creative and Critical PhD. In 2022 he was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize, the QuietManDave Prize, […]
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Crafting Crime Fiction by Henry Sutton
Crafting Crime Fiction is the new monograph by UEA lecturer of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction and convenor of the Creative Writing MA Crime Fiction Henry Sutton and was published by Manchester University Press last week. Henry is the author of 15 novels and a collection of short stories, including My Criminal World, Kids’ Stuff (which was […]
Crafting Crime Fiction
The following is an extract form the introduction of Henry Sutton’s new monograph, Crafting Crime Fiction, published by Manchester University Press in October 2023. INTRODUCTION: BEGINNINGS What is crime fiction? Let’s start here, with the biggest mystery of all. Or is it? This book will ask many questions and hopefully answer quite a few. […]
John Steciuk and Michelle Alipao Chikaonda longlisted for Deborah Rogers Award
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. John Steciuk (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017 and is currently completing the Creative Critical PhD, is nominated for his short story collection The Reservoirs are Colder and Deeper than you Think; and Michelle Alipao […]
Ned Carter Miles highly commended in Blue Pencil Agency Award
For Sugar by UEA alumnus Ned Carter Miles was highly commended in the Blue Pencil Agency Best First Novel Award. Ned (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2022. He has recently worked as a freelance radio producer for BBC Radio 4, Audible, and the Guardian, and as the UK Desk […]
Naomi Wood wins BBC National Short Story Prize
“Comorbidities” by UEA alumna and Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing Naomi Wood has won The BBC National Short Story Award. Naomi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2013. Her first novel The Godless Boys was published in 2011 […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
When We Were Birds by UEA alumna Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2018. She is currently completing her PhD in Creative & Critical […]
Naoise Gale longlisted for Poetry Book Award
After the Flood Comes the Apologies by current UEA student Naoise Gale has been longlisted in the 2023 Poetry Book Awards, a prize for poetry pamphlets and books published by indies, self-published poets, small presses, and independent publishers. Naoise (pictured) joined the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) this year. Her debut pamphlet After the […]
The Graveyard
This extract is from a novel in progress and is set during the 1600s, in New England. A fortnight before the birth of my brother, mother woke me with a silvery whisper. I had, since she had grown heavy with lethargy and child, taken the habit of watching over her in her sleep. I […]
Ian Nettleton wins Bath Novel Award
Out of Nowhere by UEA alumnus Ian Nettleton has won the Bath Novel Award. Ian (pictured) completed his PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA in 2003 and has since taught the writing of fiction, journalism and screenplays at UEA, the Open University, and Goldsmiths College, London. He has also worked for the BBC […]