Somebody Loves You by UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by British and British resident BAME writers. Mona (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2012. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Dear Big Gods was published in […]
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Mona Arshi longlisted for Jhalak Prize
Somebody Loves You by UEA alumna Mona Arshi has been longlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by British and British resident BAME writers. Mona (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2012. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Dear Big Gods was published […]
Mona Arshi and Melanie Mauthner longlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize
Two UEA alumni have been included on the longlist for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Mona Arshi is nominated for her debut novel Somebody Loves You, published by And Other Stories last year. Melanie Mauthner is nominated for her translation of Our Lady of the Nile, the first novel by Rwandan […]
Somebody Loves You
An excerpt from Mona Arshi’s debut novel Somebody Loves You, published by And Other Stories in November 2021. EGGS A man is offering her a bowl. She peers inside and there is an egg nestled in light peat close to the surface. It is a small blue egg – perfect and complete. She gently […]
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi
Somebody Loves You is the debut novel by UEA alumna Mona Arshi and is published by And Other Stories this week. Mona (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2012, having previously trained as a lawyer and worked for the human rights organization Liberty. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize […]
Shifting Lines by Mona Arshi
Shifting Lines is a multimedia poetry installation by UEA alumna Mona Arshi, made in collaboration with the cross-artform organisation Mutiny. Inspired by the coastal landscape of Cley, and commissioned as part of UEA’s Future & Form project, it will be showing at the Cley Wildlife Reserve during the 2021 Norfolk and Norwich Festival from 21 […]
Future & Form at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Future and Form – 21- 30 May, 2021 Six writers. Six works. Six visions of a literary future. Marking its 50 year anniversary, UEA’s world-renowned MA in Creative Writing programme presents, as part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2021, six new multidisciplinary, experimental works that explore the interface between contemporary literature and creative technology. “The […]
Future and Form website goes live
Future and Form is the flagship project of the fiftieth anniversary of the UEA Creative Writing programme and features collaborative projects involving UEA alumni Ayòbámi Adébáyò, Mona Arshi, Tash Aw (pictured), Imogen Hermes Gowar, Mitch Johnson and James McDermott. They will work with UEA faculty, creative technologists, cultural organisations and schools to explore the relationship […]
Future and Form website goes live
What will writing look like in 50 years? What role will authors play in the future? In the fiftieth anniversary year of the UEA Creative Writing programme, the Future and Form research project explores the interface between contemporary literature and creative technology. Full details and updates can be found on the newly launched project website: […]
New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting
Our New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting is taking place online, hosted by UEA. Join us live on the afternoon of Saturday 14 November for an online discussion responding to two pre-recorded panels: • ‘New Perspectives on Nature Writing’, featuring Jessica J. Lee, Mona Arshi and Jean McNeil • ‘States of Emergency’, featuring James Thornton, […]
