Two UEA alumnae have been shortlisted for CrimeFest’s Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, which is for authors first published in the United Kingdom in 2023. The winning author will receive a £1,000 prize. Natalie Marlow, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2018, is nominated for Needless Alley; and Alice Slater, […]
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Catriona Ward and Alice Slater nominated for Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards
Two UEA alumni are in the running for the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards. Nominees are selected by an advisory board but the winners are chosen via a public voting system open to fans and readers. Voting is currently open on the Capital Crime website. Catriona Ward (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing […]
Alice Slater & Stephen Buoro longlisted for Authors’ Club Award
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction. Alice Slater, who graduatedfrom the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, is nominated for her novel Death of a Bookseller; and Stephen Buoro, who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose […]
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
Death of a Bookseller is the debut novel by UEA alumna Alice Slater and is published by Hodder & Stoughton this week. Alice studied Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University before graduating from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011. She worked for several years as a bookseller, and is the co-host […]
The Outsiders, edited by Alice Slater
The Outsiders is a new collection of short fiction recently published by 3 of Cups Press and edited by UEA alumna Alice Slater. The collection includes work by Eley Williams, Julia Armfield, Jen Campbell, Kirsty Logan, Leone Ross, Sarvat Hasin, Stephanie Victoire, Lara Williams, and UEA alumna Anna Wood (MA 2011), whose own debut collection […]