The UEA Literary Festival was founded in 1991 and this academic year we celebrate 30 years of live literature at the university. Now known as UEA Live, the Autumn 2020 season featured this event with Raymond Antrobus and Joe Dunthorne in conversation about poems, perseverance and creativity. Visit the UEA Live website here: https://www.uealive.com […]
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Translating Trauma
A few days into my residency at the BCLT, I submitted my first full-length non-fiction project: What Have You Left Behind – Voices From a Forgotten War, a collection of forty-three accounts of war from Yemen, recorded by the author and activist Bushra Al-Maqtari. It was my first encounter with translating a veritably traumatic piece […]
Richard Lambert longlisted for Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards
The Wolf Road by UEA alumnus Richard Lambert has been longlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010 and published his debut collection of poetry, Night Journey, in 2012. His second collection, The Nameless Places, was published by Arc in 2017 and was shortlisted for the East Anglian […]
Mona Arshi and Melanie Mauthner longlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize
Two UEA alumni have been included on the longlist for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Mona Arshi is nominated for her debut novel Somebody Loves You, published by And Other Stories last year. Melanie Mauthner is nominated for her translation of Our Lady of the Nile, the first novel by Rwandan […]
Alan Murrin longlisted for Caledonia Novel Award
The Coast Road by UEA alumnus Alan Murrin was recently longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. Originally from Donegal, Alan (pictured) studied English Studies at Trinity College Dublin, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2017. Now based in Berlin, he writes for The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The […]
A Quiver of Skills: Non-Fiction and the Translator as Archer
A Quiver of Skills: Non-Fiction and the Translator as Archer Every time I finish a translation, I ponder on what I have learned and how my practice has shifted a little then resettled, like sand – almost the same but slightly different, undoubtedly shaped by the experience. In December 2021 I embarked on a somewhat […]
Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Clare Hynes
The UEA Literary Festival was founded in 1991 and this academic year we celebrate 30 years of live literature at the university. Now known as UEA Live, the Autumn 2020 season featured this event with Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Clare Hynes Visit the UEA Live website here: https://www.uealive.com For more on CW50: […]
Amanda Smyth longlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Fortune by UEA alumna Amanda Smyth has been longlisted for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner. The novel was published by Peepal Tree Press last year. Amanda is Irish/Trinidadian and completed the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000. Her first novel, Black Rock, was published by […]
Special Mentions for Sussie Anie, Mary Franklin and Rose Keating
Three current and former students on the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA have been given Special Mentions in this year’s Galley Beggar Short Story Competition. They are Sussie Anie (pictured), who graduated in 2019, for ‘Pickled Souls’, current student Mary Franklin for ‘Before Behind Between Above Below’, and Rose Keating, who graduated last year, […]
When We Were Birds
An extract from When We Were Birds, the debut novel by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2022 Yejide Is three days Yejide curl up on her bed under the mosquito net, listening to the storm outside. Three days since the wind set up and the first few fat raindrops pound […]