The Bee Sting by UEA Alumni Paul Murray has been selected as the winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First […]
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Spy Hunter
An extract from HB Lyle’s new novel Spy Hunter published by Hodder & Stoughton in November 2023. Sunday 28th June 1914 Magnificence on wheels. The most wonderful thing he’d ever seen. A line of them, catching the sunshine in metallic bursts. A motorcade of power. Mehmed Mehmedbasic watches as the glorious cars go past and […]
April Yee and Edward Hogan shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize
Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize. April Yee (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2022 as a Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholar, is nominated for her story ‘Still Blue Thing’; and Edward Hogan, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004, […]
Catriona Ward has been nominated for the Polar du Prix Libr’a nous Prize
La Dernière Maison Avant Les Bois, a French translation by Pierre Szczeciner of UEA alumna Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street, has been nominated for the second round of the Polar du Prix Libr’a nous Prize in France. Catriona (pictured) grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at […]
Kelechi Njoku & Linda Temienor-Vincent are Escalator winners
Two UEA alumni, Kelechi Njoku & Linda Temienor-Vincent, have been selected alongside six other writers as winners of the 2023/24 National Centre for Writing’s Escalator programme, a talent scheme that provides mentoring and development for early-career fiction writers in the East of England. Kelechi Njoku (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Jekwu Anyaegbuna was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Short Fiction Prize
‘CERTIFICATE OF INFERTILITY’ by UEA alumna Jekwu Anyaegbuna was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Fiction Prize. While his story was not the overall winner, shortlisted works will be published in Aesthetica Magazine‘s Creative Writing Anthology 2024. Jekwu (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2019 as that year’s recipient of the […]
Diana Evans’s A House for Alice is a Burley Fisher Book of the Year
A House for Alice by UEA almuna Diana Evans has been selected as a Burley Fisher Book of the Year. Diana (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. Her debut novel, 26a, was published in 2005 and won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel […]
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is a Times Best Novel of the Year
The Bee Sting by UEA alumna Paul Murray has been selected as a Times Best Novel of the Year. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001. He published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Irish […]
Gaslight
An extract from Femi Kayode’s second novel, Gaslight, published by Raven Books in November 2023. GENESIS Let them come for him during Sunday service. They should wait for him to walk to the altar. Let him check that the cameras are placed as he directed during rehearsals. Give him time to mumble some […]
Stephen Buoro & Paul Murray shortlisted for Nero Book Awards
Two UEA alumni have been shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards. Stephen Buoro (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2019 and is currently studying for a fully-funded PhD in Creative & Critical Writing, is nominated for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa in the Debut Fiction category; and Paul […]