Babu Bangladesh! is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Numair Atif Choudhury and has recently been published posthumously by Fourth Estate India. Numair graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1999, and subsequently gained a PhD from the University of Texas in Dallas. He lived for several years in the USA before joining […]
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Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
Platform Seven is the new novel by UEA alumna Louise Doughty and is published by Faber & Faber this week. Louise graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1987 and published her first novel, Crazy Paving, in 1995. Her sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was published in 2011 and shortlisted for the Costa Novel […]
Patience by Toby Litt
Patience is the new novel by UEA alumnus Toby Litt and is published by Galley Beggar Press this week. Toby graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He is the author of nine novels and three […]
Katharine Kilalea shortlisted for Collyer Bristow Prize
OK, Mr Field, the debut novel by UEA alumna Katharine Kilalea, has been shortlisted for the Collyer Bristow Prize for debut fiction. The novel was published by Faber and Faber last year. Katharine grew up in South Africa and moved to England in 2005 in order to study for an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) […]
Ayobami Adebayo wins 9Mobile Prize for Literature
Stay With Me, the debut novel by UEA alumna Ayobami Adebayo, has been named as the winner of the 9Mobile Prize for Literature. Founded in 2013 as the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the £15,000 award is a pan-African literary prize for debut books of fiction. Ayobami (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose […]
Vijay Khurana and Kate Vine shortlisted for Bath Short Story Award
Two UEA writers have been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award. Vijay Khurana is shortlisted for ‘Circling The Chicken’ and Kate Vine for ‘Beautiful Things’. Vijay is a current student on the MFA in Creative Writing, prior to which he lived in Australia, Cambodia and Germany, and worked as a radio presenter and journalist. Earlier this […]
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
The Truants is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Kate Weinberg and is published in the UK by Bloomsbury this week. Kate studied English at Oxford University before graduating from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2000. She has since worked as a slush pile reader, a bookshop assistant, a journalist and […]
Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
Swan Song, the debut novel by UEA alumna Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, has been shortlisted for this year’s Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which celebrates storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Kelleigh (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2017. As a work-in-progress, Swan Song was awarded the 2015 Bridport / Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and […]
Catriona Ward wins Shirley Jackson Award
Little Eve by UEA alumna Catriona Ward has won the prize for best novel in the Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. Catriona (pictured) was born in Washington DC and grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, […]
Joe Dunthorne shortlisted for Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
‘All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything To Everyone’ by UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne has been shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, the world’s richest prize for a single short story. The winner receives £30,000 and each of the six shortlistees £1,000. The co-sponsor Audible will also produce an audio […]
