Elsewhere by UEA alumna Yan Ge has been longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, an award that seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers. Yan was born in Sichuan, China, in 1984, and is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English. She graduated from UEA with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2020. […]
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Practice
The following is an excerpt from Rosalind’s debut novel Practice published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and reproduced with permission. Oxford, 2009 The alarm goes off. A small spider, sitting in a corner of the dark room, would see her stir in bed, and her hand slow and uncomplaining reach over to the clock. […]
Practice by Rosalind Brown
Practice is the debut novel by UEA alumna Rosalind Brown and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Rosalind graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2016 and from the Creative & Critical Writing PhD in 2022.She grew up in Cambridge, and now lives in Norwich. Her work has appeared in […]
Moral Injuries by Christie Watson
Moral Injuries is the new novel by UEA alumna and Professor of Medical and Health Humanities and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Christie trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital and worked in nursing for twenty years before graduating from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in […]
Anne Enright longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Wren, The Wren by UEA alumna Anne Enright has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Anne graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and is the author of eleven previous books, including the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Gathering. Her most recent novel The Green Road was published […]
Max Lury wins the Galley Beggar Prize
‘Santa Fe’ by UEA alumnus Max Lury has won the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. Max Lury (pictured) graduated from the MA (Prose Fiction) in 2021, having previously completed a BA in Philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was previously longlisted for the 2022 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Max will receive £2500 for winning […]
Stephanie Bishop longlisted for the Stella Prize
The Anniversary by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Stephanie Bishop has been longlisted for the Stella Prize,a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. Originally from Australia, where Stephanie taught at the University of New South Wales, she […]
Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun is the new memoir by UEA alumna Catherine Coldstream and was published by Chatto & Windus last week. Catherine was born in London, and grew up loving music, words, and books. After converting to Roman Catholicism in her twenties, she spent twelve years in a Carmelite monastery where she lived […]
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain is a book of song lyrics written by UEA alumnus Kazuo Ishiguro for jazz singer Stacey Kent and was published by Faber last week. Kazuo graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1980 and is the author of eight novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982), which […]
Junyan
I wasn’t surprised when Suzanne said she was going to leave me. I had expected that she’d find out about the affair one day, and perhaps even hoped that she would; I had imagined her fury, her smashing bowls and plates, screaming and demanding an explanation or excuse, and her fingernail scratches on my […]