The Day That Went Missing, a memoir by UEA alumnus Richard Beard, has been shortlisted for this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize, which is worth £20,000 to the winner. The prize is open to writers from around the world and rewards the best work of literature regardless of form. Richard graduated from the MA in Creative […]
UEA Creative Writing
Paula Cocozza and Imogen Hermes Gowar longlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize
Two recent graduates of the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) have been included on the longlist for this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels. Both began their novels while studying at UEA. Paula Cocozza is nominated for How to Be Human (Hutchinson) and Imogen Hermes Gowar for The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock […]
Ayobami Adebayo shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Stay With Me, the debut novel by UEA alumna Ayobami Adebayo, has been shortlisted for this year’s Wellcome Book Prize. Ayobami (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2014 and was the recipient of a full-fees International Scholarship. Stay With Me was published by Canongate in the UK and […]
Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb
Trenton Makes is the debut novel by UEA alumnus Tadzio Koelb and is published by Doubleday this week. Tadzio graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2008 and has since worked as a translator, reviewer and teacher. His art and book reviews and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including […]
Xenofeminism by Helen Hester
Xenofeminism is a new book of feminist theory by UEA graduate Helen Hester and has just been published by Polity Press. Helen graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2005 and an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2007. She also gained an MA from the University of Sussex in 2006 […]
Words & Women: The Compendium
Words & Women: The Compendium is an anthology of fiction and creative non-fiction by women writers in the East of England and nationally over the age of forty. It is published this week with a launch event in the Book Hive in Norwich on 9th March. The Compendium gathers work representing the best of the […]
Imogen Hermes Gowar longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
UEA alumna Imogen Hermes Gowar has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. Imogen graduated from UEA with a BA in Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History in 2012 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2014, when she was the winner […]
The Heart Is A Burial Ground by Tamara Colchester
The Heart Is A Burial Ground is the debut novel by UEA alumna Tamara Colchester and is published by Simon & Schuster this week. Tamara is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in various publications, including AnOther Magazine. She graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2010, […]
Elizabeth Macneal sells novel to Picador
Recent UEA graduate Elizabeth Macneal has sold her debut novel The Doll Factory to Picador following an auction involving thirteen other publishers. The novel was recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Caledonia Novel Award, an international award for unpublished and self-published novelists. Picador have also bought the rights to her second novel and […]
Jane Harris and Natasha Pulley longlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Two UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which is worth £25,000 to the winner and £1,000 to each shortlisted author. Jane Harris graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992 and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995 and is nominated for […]