UEA alumnus David Almond has been longlisted for this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for ‘My Name is Mina’, published by Hodder last year.
David graduated from UEA in 1973 with a BA in English and American Studies, and published …

UEA Creative Writing graduate Sue Healy has won the 2011 Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award, a national short story competition in Ireland, for her story ‘Snailsock’. She collected her award at the Lismore Festival of Writing
yesterday. Su…

UEA Creative Writing graduate Robert Sheppard has recently published a new collection of poems, ‘Berlin Bursts’, a critical history of alternative British poetry, ‘When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry’, and a pamphlet with Knives Forks and S…

‘So Why Are We Here Again?’, new short story by current UEA undergraduate Ysabelle Cheung, is featured in the New Voices section of the online literary journal Untitled Books. Ysabelle (pictured) is soon to complete her BA in English Literature…

‘Pure’ is the sixth novel by UEA alumnus Andrew Miller and is published by Sceptre this week. Andrew graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1990 and published his first novel ‘Ingenious Pain’ in 1997. This went on to win the James Tait Black Mem…

Two UEA Creative Writing alumni have been included on the shortlist of five competing for this
year’s Hookline Novel Competition. Gayle O’Brien Kennedy graduated from the Prose Fiction
MA in 2005 and is shortlisted for her novel ‘Underground’. Ta…

‘Workshop’, a new anthology of creative writing by UEA undergraduates, is published today in memory of Will Jordan, a student of American Literature and
Creative Writing, who passed away last year. Conceived and compiled by his friends, including …

‘A Book for All and None’ is the second novel by UEA alumna Clare Morgan and is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson this week. Clare graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1991 having already published one novel, ‘A Touch of
the Other’…

UEA has today announced a partnership with the Guardian to offer a series of Creative Writing Masterclasses in London to be taught by award-winning authors including Adam Foulds (who graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in
2000), Bernardine …

The longlist of ten contenders for this year’s Desmond Elliott prize has been reduced to a shortlist of three, including UEA writer Anjali Joseph for her first novel ‘Saraswati Park’. Anjali graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 2008 and …