Death of a Bookseller by UEA alumna Alice Slater has won the Capital Crime Debut Book of the Year Fingerprint Award. 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 of […]
Death of a Bookseller
Natalie Marlow & Alice Slater shortlisted for CrimeFest Award
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, […]
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 […]

