The Bee Sting by UEA alumnus Paul Murray has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Irish Fiction Award. His […]
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God’s Little Artist by Sue Hubbard
God’s Little Artist is the new pamphlet by UEA alumna Sue Hubbard and was published by Seren earlier this month. Sue graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1995. She is a freelance art critic, lecturer, broadcaster, and writer, and has twice won the London Writers’ Competition for her poetry. Her first […]
Rachel Cleverly & Zoe Green longlisted for Winchester Poetry Prize
Poems by two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the Winchester Poetry Prize. Rachel Cleverly (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2019, is nominated for the poems ‘Portrait of a Girl as Spinach’ and ‘The Year Prickled’; and Zoe Green, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Three Poems
Three poems from I don’t know what language I dream in by Taher Adel, published by Burning Eye Books in September 2023 I don’t know what language I dream in My mother speaks to me only in Arabic because you’ll learn English in school. But when did I lose my mother tongue? Was it […]
Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
Absolutely & Forever is the new novel from UEA alumna Rose Tremain and is published by Chatto & Windus this week. Rose graduated from UEA with a BA in English in 1967 and later returned to the university to teach on the Creative Writing MA and, more recently, to become the University’s first female Chancellor. […]
Stephen Buoro named a Guardian Best New Novelist
Stephen Buoro has been named one of the Guardian’s Best New Novelists of 2023. Stephen (pictured) was born in Nigeria in 1993 and previously studied Mathematics before joining the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2018 as the recipient of that year’s Booker Prize Foundation Bursary. He is currently studying for a fully-funded PhD in Creative […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins American Book Award
When We Were Birds by UEA alumna and current student Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been named a winner of the 44th annual Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, an award created to provide recognition of outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from […]
Parables, Fables, Nightmares by Malachi McIntosh
Parables, Fables, Nightmares is the debut short story collection by UEA alumnus Malachi McIntosh and is published by The Emma Press this week. Malachi was born and lives in Birmingham, England, but spent his childhood in the United States. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2015 and is currently an […]
I don’t know what language I dream in by Taher Adel
I don’t know what language I dream in is the debut poetry pamphlet by UEA alumnus Taher Adel and is published by Burning Eye Books this week. Taher graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2019. He was also poet in residence for Wells-next-the-sea in 2019. His previous works include The Names (Translated into […]
Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman
Chasing the Dragon is the second novel in the Betancourt Mystery series by UEA alumnus Mark Wightman and is published by Hobeck Books this week. Mark graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) in 2018 and also holds a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Waking the Dragon, the first of the series […]