The Social Smoker by UEA alumna Kathryn Simmonds has been shortlisted for this year’s Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award. The winner will be announced on 11 July. Kathryn (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 2002. She received an Eric Gregory Award in the same year and published a pamphlet, ‘Snug’, […]
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Richard Beard shortlisted for PEN Ackerley Prize
The Day That Went Missing, a memoir by UEA alumnus Richard Beard, has been shortlisted for this year’s PEN Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography. The book is also currently shortlisted for the James Tait Black (Biography) Prize and was previously shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1995 and has […]
Richard Beard shortlisted for PEN Ackerley Prize
The Day That Went Missing, a memoir by UEA alumnus Richard Beard, has been shortlisted for this year’s PEN Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography. The book is also currently shortlisted for the James Tait Black (Biography) Prize and was previously shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1995 and has […]
Cat Woodward wins Ivan Juritz Prize
UEA student Cat Woodward has won the 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize, which invites postgraduate students throughout Europe to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image work and proposals for installation and performance. Cat (pictured) graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2011 and is […]
Nominations for Paul Howarth’s Only Killers And Thieves
Only Killers And Thieves,the debut novel by UEA alumnus Paul Howarth,has been selected as this month’s editor’s pick in The Sunday Timesand as the book of the month in The Times. It was recently published in the UK by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press. In February it was published as a lead title by HarperCollins in the US, where […]
Imogen Hermes Gowar nominated for the Times Breakthrough Award
UEA alumna Imogen Hermes Gowar has been announced as the Literature nominee for the Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The Breakthrough Award recognises achievements made by newcomers across ten categories of the arts. Imogen (pictured) is nominated for her debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, which was recently shortlisted […]
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Swan Song is the debut novel by recent UEA graduate Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott and is published this week by Hutchinson. Kelleigh was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and earned a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University before studying screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
Lucia by Alex Pheby
Lucia is the third novel by UEA alumnus Alex Pheby and is published by Galley Beggar Press this week. Alex graduated with a PhD in Creative & Critical Writing from UEA in 2010 and is currently the programme leader of Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich in London and co-founder and co-director of the […]
Anna Cathenka, Alice Willitts and Cat Woodward shortlisted for Ivan Juritz Prize
Three current UEA students have been shortlisted for the 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize, which invites postgraduate students throughout Europe to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image work and proposals for installation and performance. Anna Cathenka and Alice Willitts are currently completing the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) and […]
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper
Our Homesick Songs is the second novel by UEA alumna Emma Hooper and has just been published by Penguin. Emma was born in Canada and moved to England in 2004 after completing her BA in Music and Writing at the University of Alberta. She took an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University before […]
