Two UEA alumni have been nominated for The Carnegies Medal for Writing. The Carnegies are the UK’s longest running children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people. Ashley Hickson-Lovence (pictured), who graduated from the Creative and Critical PhD in 2022, is nominated for Wild […]
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Michael Egan’s Runner Hawk is a Times Book of the Year
Runner Hawk by UEA alumnus Michael Egan has been named a Times Children’s Book of the Year. Michael is from Liverpool and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2022 as the recipient of the Booker Foundation scholarship. He is the author of six pamphlets of poetry, most recently the ghost maze, published […]
Runner Hawk
An extract from Michael Egan’s newest novel, Runner Hawk, published by Everything with Words in October 2023. One It was right in a moment of stillness as the cold morning air bit at my breath that I first caught sight of the runner. He hung there in mid-stride, strange and unnatural in his frozen […]
Runner Hawk by Michael Egan
Runner Hawk is the new novel by UEA alumnus Michael Egan and is published by Everything With Words this week. Michael is from Liverpool, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2022 as the recipient of the Booker Foundation scholarship. He is the author of six pamphlets of poetry, most recently the […]
Circles A Clover by Michael Egan
Circles a Clover is the debut novel by UEA student Michael Egan and is published by Everything With Words this week. Michael is from Liverpool, and joined the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) this year as the 2021-22 Booker Foundation scholarship recipient. He is the author of six pamphlets of poetry, most recently the ghost […]
Circles a Clover
An extract from Michael Egan’s new novel, Circles a Clover, published by Everything With Words on 21 October 2021. Far away, beyond the confines of her life, there was a war. Or there wasn’t a war because war was only ever really a war when you knew someone who had been hurt in it, […]
