Two UEA alumnae have been longlisted for the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize, an international literary award for essay-length nature writing. Anna Selby is nominated for ‘We Grieve Only for What We Know’ and Helen Baczkowska for ‘The Unbounded Land’. Anna (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2005 and from the […]
Helen Baczkowska
Helen Baczkowska shortlisted for Nan Shepherd Prize
Common Place by recent UEA graduate Helen Baczkowska was shortlisted for the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing. Helen graduated from the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in 2021. She is an ecologist, writer and environmental activist living in rural Norfolk and regularly writes articles on local wildlife for Norfolk publications and for The Land magazine. […]
Twyford Rising, Land and Resistance
In the spring of 1992, Helen Beynon joined the protests against the construction of the M3 motorway through Twyford Down, a chalk hill in Hampshire England. This was the first of a wave of road protests that swept across the country in the 1990s and laid the foundation for the modern environmental movement, from campaigns […]
Twyford Rising: Land And Resistance by Helen Beynon
Twyford Rising: Land And Resistance is the first work of non-fiction by current UEA student Helen Beynon (aka Helen Baczkowska) and has recently been published by Sarsen Press, having been successfully crowd-funded. Helen is an ecologist, writer and environmental activist living in rural Norfolk. She regularly writes articles on local wildlife for Norfolk publications and […]
