After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath is a volume of new work to mark the ninetieth anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth. It is co-edited by Ian Humphreys and UEA alumna Sarah Corbett (MA 1988), and includes contributions by UEA Professor of Poetry, Tiffany Atkinson, and alumnae Moniza Alvi (PhD 2022), Mona […]
Sarah Corbett
Sarah Corbett wins Arvon Award
UEA alumna Sarah Corbett has won the Arvon Award in the 2021 New Writing North Northern Writers’ Awards. Sarah (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998. She is the author of five collections of poems, most recently A Perfect Mirror, published by Pavilion Poetry in 2018) and highly commended in the Forward […]
Penny Boxall, Sam Buchan-Watts, Sarah Corbett and Melissa Wan receive Northern Writers’ Awards
Four UEA alumni have recently received Northern Writers’ Awards. Penny Boxall and Sam Buchan-Watts have received awards for poetry of between between £1000 and £5000 to support them in developing their current works-in-progress. Penny (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 2009. Her debut collection Ship of the Line was published in 2014. […]
