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OK, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea

June 9, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

OK, Mr Field is the debut novel by UEA alumna Katharine Kilalea and has just been published by Faber & Faber. Katharine grew up in South Africa and moved to England in 2005 in order to study for an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at UEA. She graduated in 2006 and in 2009 published her […]

Mitch Johnson wins Branford Boase Award

June 4, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

UEA alumnus Mitch Johnson has won this year’s Branford Boase Award for his debut children’s novel, Kick, which was published by Usborne last year. Mitch graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2014 and currently works as a bookseller in Waterstones, Norwich. The award is shared with his editors Rebecca Hill […]

Only Killers And Thieves by Paul Howarth

June 4, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

Only Killers And Thieves is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Paul Howarth and is published in the UK this week by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press. It was published as a lead title by HarperCollins in the US in February.  Paul was born and grew up in the UK and lived and worked in Australia for several years, […]

Deepa Anappara wins Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

May 25, 2018 by Sophie Scott

Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line by UEA writer Deepa Anappara has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, one week after winning the Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for debut authors. Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is worth £1,500 and rewards an unpublished female author. Deepa (pictured) is a journalist and […]

Sally Craythorne and James Smart shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize

May 24, 2018 by Sophie Scott

Two UEA writers have been shortlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which is worth £5,000 to the winner and is judged by an international panel of writers, this year chaired by Sarah Hall. Sally Craythorne is nominated for ‘Goat’ and James Smart for ‘After the Fall’. Sally graduated from the MA in Creative […]

You by Phil Whitaker

May 20, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

You is the new novel by UEA alumnus Phil Whitaker and has recently been published by Salt.  Phil graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1996 and published his first novel Eclipse of the Sun in 1997. This went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted […]

Deepa Anappara wins Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award

May 17, 2018 by Sophie Scott

Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line by UEA writer Deepa Anappara has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for debut authors, which is worth £10,000 and honours the memory of the literary agent Deborah Rogers who died in 2016. Deepa (pictured) is a journalist and editor who graduated last […]

Tom Watson wins Curtis Brown Award

May 16, 2018 by Sophie Scott

Tom Watson has been named as the recipient of this year’s £1,500 Curtis Brown Award, which is awarded annually to the best student on the UEA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA, as chosen by a panel of Curtis Brown agents. The prize was established by the agency in memory of their colleague Giles Gordon, and […]

Faber & Faber to publish ‘film-poem’ by Owen Sheers

May 11, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

Faber & Faber has recently acquired To Provide All People, a ‘film-poem’ by UEA alumnus Owen Sheers, which it will publish in July to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act and the broadcast of the Vox Pictures/BBC Wales production of the same name.Owen (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative […]

Richard Beard shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize

May 11, 2018 by Samantha Alexander

  The Day That Went Missing, a memoir by UEA alumnus Richard Beard, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Tait Black (Biography) Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1995 and has published six novels including Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones andDamascus, which was a New York […]

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