The Angel Tiger and Other Stories is the new collection by UEA alumnus Barrie Sherwood and is published by Epigram Books this month. Born in Hong Kong of Canadian and French nationality, Barrie now lives in Singapore where he is an assistant professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. He graduated with a […]
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Blood. Flower. Joy! by Cat Woodward
Blood. Flower. Joy! is the second collection of poetry by UEA alumna Cat Woodward and is published by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press this month. Cat (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2011 and completed her PhD in English Literature at UEA in 2018. Her poetry has been […]
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
The Cockroach is a new novella by UEA alumnus Ian McEwan and is published by Jonathan Cape this week. A satire on Brexit, it is his sixteenth work of fiction and the second to be published this year, following the novel Machines Like Me. Ian was the inaugural graduate of the UEA Creative Writing programme […]
Joe Milan Jr joins UEA
Joe Milan Jr has joined UEA for this academic year as the 2019/20 David T. K. Wong Writing Fellow. Joe (pictured) is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he is a Barrick graduate fellow and was a Black Mountain Institute PhD fellow. He gained his MFA from Vermont […]
The Cone Snail
An extract from ‘The Cone Snail’ by Barrie Sherwood, which is published in his new collection, The Angel Tiger and Other Stories (Epigram Books), in October 2019. THE job, and all that it led to, came to Andra through an uncle of sorts, a Singaporean Sikh who lived with his aunt and owned a fleet of […]
Steve Waters’s adaptation of The Last King Of Scotland
UEA Professor of Scriptwriting Steve Waters has adapted for the stage the novel The Last King of Scotland by fellow UEA Professor, novelist Giles Foden. The novel won the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and was released as an Oscar-winning film in 2006. Steve’s stage adaptation has its world premiere at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre […]
Olivia Walwyn wins Straid Collection Award
UEA Creative Writing alumna Olivia Walwyn is to publish her first full collection of poetry, Halcyon, as the winner of the 2019 Straid Collection Award. The award is open to new and established poets and is run by the independent publisher Templar Poetry. Olivia graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2017, having previously […]
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
A Single Thread is the new novel UEA alumna Tracy Chevalier and has just been published by The Borough Press. Tracy graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1994 and published her first novel The Virgin Blue in 1996. Her second novel Girl With A Pearl Earring was published in 1999 and was […]
We Are Made of Earth by Panos Karnezis
We Are Made of Earth is the new novel by UEA alumnus Panos Karnezis and has just been published by Myriad Editions. Panos was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000, and published his first collection of short […]
The Love Child by Rachel Hore
The Love Child is the ninth novel by UEA lecturer in Creative Writing Rachel Hore and is published this week by Simon and Schuster. Rachel worked in publishing for several years before joining UEA, where she teaches publishing and Creative Writing and oversees the production of the annual anthology of work by UEA Creative Writing […]
