‘The English German Girl’ is the second novel by Jake Wallis Simons and is published this month by Polygon. Born in London in 1978, Jake was awarded
a first class degree in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD in …
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New Novel by Jane Harris
‘Gillespie and I’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Jane Harris and is published by Faber and Faber today. Jane graduated from the MA in
Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992, and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995. Betw…
D.W.Wilson nominated for national award.
UEA writer D.W. Wilson has received three nominations in the Fiction category of the annual Canadian National Magazine Awards. These are ‘The
Persistence’, which was published in Prairie Fire, and two stories written during his MA year: ‘The …
Agnes Lehoczky wins poetry prize
UEA writer Agnes Lehocsky is to be awarded the inaugural Jane Martin Poetry Prize by Girton College, Cambridge. Agnes (pictured) is a
Hungarian-born poet and translator who completed UEA’s Creative Writing (Poetry) MA with distinction in 2006. Sh…
Anne Enright’s new novel
‘The Forgotten Waltz’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Anne Enright and is published by Jonathan Cape this week. Anne graduated from the Creative
Writing MA in 1987 and published her first collection of stories, ‘The Portable Virgin’, in 1991…
Amanda Hodgkinson’s debut novel
‘22 Britannia Road’ is the first novel by UEA Creative Writing alumna Amanda Hodgkinson
and is published by Fig Tree this week. Amanda, who graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2001, now lives in south west France, where she is a
columnist fo…
Anjali Joseph nominated for Desmond Elliott Award
‘Sarawati Park’, the debut novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph, has been included on the longlist of ten novels for the 2011 Desmond Elliott
prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. The contenders will be narrowed down to a shortlist of thre…
Flip by Martyn Bedford
‘Flip’ is the first novel for young adults by UEA alumnus Martyn Bedford and has recently been published by Walker Books in the UK and Wendy Lamb Books (Random House) in the US. A second young adult novel, ‘The Fallen One’, will be published next y…
‘The Godless Boys’ by Naomi Wood
‘The Godless Boys’ is the debut novel by Naomi Wood and is published by Picador today. Naomi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2008 and is currently studying for her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She was rec…
Fabian Chaundy commissioned for Chilean TV
Current UEA undergraduate Fabian Chaundy has been commissioned to write almost half the episodes for the tenth season of a popular
children’s TV show in Chile. Fabian is in the third year of his BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, havin…