Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by UEA alumnus Robert Ashton has been shortlisted for the New Angle Prize for East Anglian Literature, a £3,000 biennial award for a book of literary merit set in or influenced by the region of East Anglia. Robert graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography and […]
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Robert Ashton longlisted for the New Angle Prize
Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by UEA alumnus Robert Ashton has been longlisted for the New Angle Prize for East Anglian Literature, a £3,000 biennial award for a book of literary merit set in or influenced by the region of East Anglia. Robert graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography and […]
Robert Ashton longlisted for Wainwright Conservation Prize
Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by UEA alumnus Robert Ashton has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize in the ‘Writing on Conservation’ category. Robert graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography and Creative Non-Fiction) in 2020. He was born in Essex, grew up in Suffolk and spent his teenage years working […]
Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by Robert Ashton
Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is the newest book by UEA alumnus Robert Ashton and was published by Unbound last week. Robert graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography and Creative Non-Fiction) in 2020. He was born in Essex, grew up in Suffolk and spent his teenage years working on farms, and […]
Where Are The Fellows Who Cut The Hay?
An extract from Where Are The Fellows Who Cut The Hay? by Robert Ashton, which is being published by crowdfunding publisher Unbound. You can support the campaign here. Steam To me, Leiston will always be Suffolk’s steam town, first put on the map by Garretts, which when I lived there in the late 1960s […]

