UEA alumnus and Creative Writing lecturer Tom Benn has won the 2023 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Tom (pictured) graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2009 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010. His first novel The Doll Princess (Cape 2012) was shortlisted […]
Oxblood
Oxblood
An extract from Tom Benn’s fourth novel Oxblood, published by Bloomsbury in April 2022 But that spring she was fourteen and would do anything. She would take off her knickers and gift them to him there if he asked her. She slipped out of the now to imagine this and her smile went, her […]
Oxblood by Tom Benn
Oxblood is the new novel by UEA alumnus and lecturer Tom Benn and is published by Bloomsbury this week. Tom graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2009 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010, when he was the recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury bursary. His […]
