An extract from Lauren Mooney’s novel in progress, Tank (working title), for middle-grade readers. Chapter one The note was on the door when Freya got home from school: F – Come to no. 47 – Mrs G It was a hot day a few weeks before the summer holidays and Freya’s pea-green uniform was […]
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The Illustrated Child
An extract from The Illustrated Child, published in the UK in October 2020 by HarperCollins HQ (and as The Book Of Hidden Wonders in the US and Australia). The oar made a slap, slapping sound as it hit the water, dipping into the soup-like moat and coming back covered in slime. There was a […]
Inside The Beautiful Inside
An extract from Inside The Beautiful Inside, the second novel by Emily Bullock, published by Everything With Words on 29th October 2020. Back in the graveyard at Portsmouth. Sea mist thickens to drizzle; it shines on Ruth’s dark hair. I wish this was a dream, I wish I was deep asleep. Ruth turns when I […]
Statement of support for Tsitsi Dangarembga
‘Friends. Here is a principle. If you want your suffering to end, you have to act. Action comes from hope. This is the principle of faith and action.’ Statement by Tsitsi Dangarembga before her arrest on 31 July 2020 On June 24, 2020 the University of East Anglia appointed Tsitsi Dangarembga to the position of the […]
The Wolf Road
The first chapter of Richard Lambert’s debut YA novel, The Wolf Road, published by Everything With Words in October 2020. The road ran through the summer fields and we raced it like wild things. It was so dusty the back of my throat tickled, and when sunlight struck the windscreen the glass turned misty white. […]
Fifty Years Of Creative Writing At UEA
Founded in 1970 by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, the UEA Creative Writing programme began with a single student: Ian McEwan. Here McEwan and an array of fellow alumni – Louise Doughty, Tracy Chevalier, Tash Aw, Mona Arshi, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Ayanna Gillian Lloyd – recall their time at UEA […]
Lockdown Love Stories
Lockdownlovestories.com is a participatory art project created by artist and writer, Philippa Found. It was launched in lockdown on 7th May 2020, with the invitation to anonymously submit your real life story of how lockdown has affected love and dating for you. Since then more than 300 stories have been published on the site and […]
Lionel Shriver interviewed by Philip Langeskov
From the UEA Literary Festival in Spring 2017, the journalist and award-winning writer of twelve novels Lionel Shriver talks to Philip Langeskov about her career and latest novel The Mandibles.
Two poems from Manatomy
Manatomy is the debut poetry collection by James McDermott and is published by Burning Eye Books on 26th August 2020. Copies may be ordered here. Promiscuous Anxious Alcoholics So Long Soho
Two poems
Two poems by UEA graduate Judy O’Kane. Readers’ Night at the London Review Bookshop This isn’t a lonely hearts column, it read, It is an occult ritual that opens a gateway to hell itself. I set up camp in Travel. A man drinking red wine disappeared into History. We stood our […]
