‘This Must Be Earth’ is a short story chapbook by UEA alumna Melissa Wan and has just been published by Night Jar Press. Melissa graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2019 as the recipient of the inaugural UEA Crowdfunded BAME Writers’ Scholarship. She received an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Writing Fellowship in […]
Melissa Wan
Melissa Wan in Best British Short Stories 2019
‘The Husband And The Wife Go To The Seaside’ by UEA student Melissa Wan is included in Best British Short Stories 2019, which is edited by Nicholas Royle and published by Salt this week. Melissa is a current student on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), and was the recipient of the UEA Crowdfunded […]
Penny Boxall, Sam Buchan-Watts, Sarah Corbett and Melissa Wan receive Northern Writers’ Awards
Four UEA alumni have recently received Northern Writers’ Awards. Penny Boxall and Sam Buchan-Watts have received awards for poetry of between between £1000 and £5000 to support them in developing their current works-in-progress. Penny (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2009. Her debut collection Ship of the Line was published in 2014. […]
