She-Clown, and Other Stories, the debut short story collection by UEA alumna Hannah Vincent, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. It was published in 2020 by Myriad Editions. Hannah is a novelist and playwright. She graduated from UEA in 1987 with a BA […]
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Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
Freight Dogs is the new novel by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Giles Foden and is published by Orion this week. Giles’s debut novel The Last King of Scotland was published in 1998 and won the Whitbread Prize for First Novel, a Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. […]
10 Bela Road
A story from Sonal Kohli’s debut collection of linked short stories, The House Next to the Factory, published by HarperCollins India in September 2021. I remove the measuring tape from around my neck and put it in the drawer along with the shears and chalk. If Masterji comes on time, we can start with these […]
The Sisters Mao by Gavin McCrea
The Sisters Mao is the new novel by UEA alumnus Gavin McCrea and is published by Scribe this week. Gavin was born in Dublin in 1978, and has since lived in Japan, Belgium, Italy, the UK, and Spain. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2009 and gained his […]
Kathy Stevens runner-up in Moth Short Story Prize
‘From Among the Dead With Go’ by UEA alumna Kathy Stevens has been placed second in the 2021 Moth Short Story Prize. Kathy (pictured) gained a BA in English Literature from Bath Spa University before joining the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2016 as the inaugural recipient of the Kowitz Scholarship. […]
A Supermarket Love Story by John Osborne
A Supermarket Love Story is a new collection of poetry by UEA alumnus John Osborne and has recently been published by Go Faster Stripe with illustrations by Katie Pope. John graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2000 and has since published a number of books, including Radio Head: Up […]
Little Bird, translated by Lily Meyer
Little Bird by the Peruvian author Claudia Ulloa Donoso is a collection of short stories that has been published from Spanish by UEA alumna Lily Meyer and has just been published by Deep Vellum. Lily (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014 and now lives in Washington, D.C. Her short […]
Dust Off The Bones
An extract from Dust Off The Bones by Paul Howarth, published by One (Pushkin House) on 26 August 2021 PROLOGUE 1885 Central Queensland, Australia They stood on the bank of the desert crater, staring down into hell. Trampled humpies, scattered possessions, discarded weapons, severed limbs, all bogged in a churn of crimson mud; the camp had […]
The House Next to the Factory by Sonal Kohli
The House Next to the Factory is the debut collection of linked short stories by UEA alumna Sonal Kohli and is published by HarperCollins India this week. Sonal grew up in Delhi and now lives in Washington, D.C. She gained a BA in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, before graduating from […]
Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw
Strangers on a Pier: A Portrait of a Family is the new book by Tash Aw and is published by Fourth Estate this week. An earlier version was published as The Face by Restless Books in 2016. Tash was born in Taipei to Malaysian parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He graduated from the […]
