The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Michael Amherst and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Michael gained his BA from Oxford University and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2007. His short fiction has appeared in publications including The White […]
Michael Amherst
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
Extracts from Michael Amherst’s essay, Go the Way Your Blood Beats, published by Repeater and winner of the 2019 Stonewall Israel Fishman Award Suddenly you were gone and your replies to me were brief. Maybe just a word. You can’t row with silence. You can’t make good with it either. I’ve learnt the trouble […]

