An extract from Cai Draper’s new pamphlet, sing & hide, published by Bad Betty Press in November 2022. Single Form after Barbara Hepworth The sculpture is of me. A monolith born of London turf. Blue, green, dun gold teetering. And this curiosity – its main feature is a perfect circular space, a lack […]
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Windstill
An extract from Eluned Gramich’s new novel, Windstill, published by Honno on 20 October 2022 Krimi Lora ended up lounging on the sofa, watching a crime drama while her grandmother, Elfriede, went around the house in her dressing gown, closing the blinds and double-checking the locks. In an effort to conceal the real […]
2022 Scriptwriting MA anthology: foreword
Deborah Davis’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Scriptwriting MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE I am honoured you have invited me to write the forward to the UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2022; I owe my creative writing career to UEA. I remember:The excitement of being accepted on to the MA in scriptwriting […]
2022 Non-Fiction anthology: foreword
Andrew Kenrick & Freya Dean’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Biography & Creative Non-Fiction MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE It doesn’t seem so very long ago (six years, in fact) that we were in the same position as the authors featured in this anthology, coming to the end of an intense […]
2022 Crime Fiction MA anthology: foreword
Lee Child’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Crime Fiction MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE I believe that crime fiction just overtook romance as the most popular genre with UK readers. Or maybe the two categories are still locked in a back-and-forth struggle for the top spot. I’m not sure. But whichever, […]
2022 Literary Translation MA anthology: foreword
Jen Calleja’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Literary Translation MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE Taking A Chance Translating is not sauntering over a bridge, ferrying a package over a calm body of water, delivering a pre-wrapped gift with a bow. It’s more akin to painstakingly building something magnificent from scratch while […]
2022 Poetry MA anthology: introduction
Tiffany Atkinson’s introduction to UEA’s 2022 Poetry MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE It’s break-time, we’re getting coffee and chatting and, somehow, laughing at the idea of ‘Poetry Voice’. Obviously, we all hate Poetry Voice: the affected way of intoning one’s own poetry aloud as if Something Important is Happening. It […]
2022 Prose Fiction MA anthology: foreword
Amit Chaudhuri’s foreword to UEA’s 2022 Prose Fiction MA anthology, published by Egg Box and available HERE My first experience of a Creative Writing department was the term I spent at Columbia University in 2002 (teaching not writing but literature and modernism at the department during a one-off stint). The students were intellectually open […]
Two poems from Scenes From Life On Earth
Two poems from Kathryn Simmonds’ third collection of poems, Scenes from Life on Earth, published by Salt in October 2022. Sunflowers, September Too often now they’re shivery, tattered, catching at us with their ruined looks. Which of us could drag them by the roots, even this one with its head half gone. Don’t […]
The Genesis of Misery
An extract from Neon Yang’s debut novel, The Genesis of Misery, published by Tor Books on 27 September 2022. Misery’s pad for the night is an anchorex’s cell, a tight little thing in the honeycombed borders of Church headquarters. Walls of holy jade enclose a bed, a simple access panel, a desk, and a […]