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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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: […]
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 […]
Mercia’s Take
An extract from Daniel Wiles’ debut novel, Mercia’s Take, published by Swift Press on 3rd February 2022 Lawrence lifted his head up from his newspaper. Seeing it was Michael, he turned to the side and exhaled. Can work the nightshift if ye want. Pays a bit better. Any because the bloke who works ya […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga in conversation with Ella Wakatama
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 Spring 2021 season featured this event with UEA’s inaugural International Professor of Creative Writing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, in conversation with Ella Wakatama. Visit the UEA Live website here: […]
A Terrible Kindness
The opening of A Terrible Kindness, the debut novel by Jo Browning Wroe, published by Faber on 20 January 2022 1 OCTOBER 1966 Something dreadful happened in Wales yesterday, but it was William’s graduation and so he has been distracted. He left the Thames College of Embalming with outstanding and unprecedented results. Tonight is the […]
Two poems
Blue Air The blue sky of downtown later and forever ………….marked by inexplicable machine boom breaking steel, cracked fires flaring ………….and blue turned to running ash as if a B-movie whipping buildings, ………….stray workers, a chrome hot-dog stand toppled on its side. But this blue is not ………….the same blue as our blue sky of […]
The Macanese Pro-Wrestler’s Cookbook
An extract from Barrie Sherwood’s new novel, The Macanese Pro-Wrestler’s Cookbook, published by Penguin on 17 November 2021. Lunch service: total drag. It had been weeks since we’d had a full house, and this was more than partly my fault. I have to admit that while I was dreaming of a future as a celebrity […]
UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements July-Dec 2021
A round-up of UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements in six months from 1 July 2021 DEBUTS Lynne Bryan (MA 1985), Helen de Borchgrave (MA 2014) and Adam Andrusier (MA 2016) published debut memoirs. Emily Bullock (MA 2004) and Sonal Kohli (MA 2013) published debut collections of short fiction. Sean Gregory (MA 2010), Mona Arshi (MA […]
The Arctic Curry Club
An extract from Dani Redd’s debut novel, The Arctic Curry Club, published by Avon on 9th December 2021 Chapter 1 As the plane flew further north, I leaned over Ryan to look out of the window. ‘There’s nothing to see – it’s already dark,’ he said apologetically. I pressed my face against the glass (not […]