Blood Orange, the debut crime novel by UEA alumna Harriet Tyce, has been shortlisted for the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards in two categories: Best Debut and Best Audiobook. Harriet was born and grew up in Edinburgh and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1994 with a degree in English Literature. Subsequently she gained legal […]
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by James Yeatman and Lauren Mooney
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: Scenes From the Luddite Rebellion is a Royal Exchange Theatre Production in association with Kandinsky created by current UEA student Lauren Mooney and co-writer James Yeatman. It runs until 10 August. Lauren (pictured) is currently the David Higham Scholar on the Creative Writing (Prose) MA at UEA. […]
Jade Cuttle longlisted for Guardian/4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize.
UEA student Jade Cuttle has been longlisted for the 2019 Guardian/4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize for her story ‘#succulove’. Jade (pictured) is a current student on the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry). She is Deputy Poetry Editor at Ambit and will be a judge on this year’s Costa Book Awards. She has written for […]
Melissa Wan in Best British Short Stories 2019
‘The Husband And The Wife Go To The Seaside’ by UEA student Melissa Wan is included in Best British Short Stories 2019, which is edited by Nicholas Royle and published by Salt this week. Melissa is a current student on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), and was the recipient of the UEA Crowdfunded […]
Diana Evans wins South Bank Sky Arts Award
Ordinary People by UEA alumna Diana Evans has won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award in Literature category. Diana graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003. Her debut novel, 26a, was published in 2005 and won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel Writer of […]
Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann
Call Him Mine is the debut novel by recent UEA graduate Tim MacGabhann and is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this week. Tim was born in Ireland in 1988. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he worked as a reporter in Mexico City for outlets such as with Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, and Thomson […]
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
The Hiding Game is the new novel by UEA writer Naomi Wood and is published by Picador this week. Naomi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2013, both at UEA. She was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing […]
Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Starling Days is the second novel by UEA Creative Writing student Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and is published by Sceptre this week. Rowan gained her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing from UEA earlier this year. She published her debut novel Harmless Like You in 2016, also with Sceptre. This received a Betty Trask Award and […]
Diana Evans and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott longlisted for Goldsboro Books Award
Two UEA alumni have been nominated for this year’s Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, which celebrates storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Diana Evans is longlisted for her third novel, Ordinary People, published by Chatto & Windus, and Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott for her debut Swan Song, published by Hutchinson. Both books were previously longlisted for the Women’s […]
Esther Morgan named runner-up for the New Angle Prize
The Wound Register by UEA alumna Esther Morgan has been named runner-up for the 2019 New Angle Prize, which celebrates literature associated with or influenced by the region of East Anglia. Esther (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 1997 and was the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Her first […]
