We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s inaugural UEA Young Writer Award! UEA has a long history of nurturing talented young writers – from Nobel Prize winner Sir Kazuo Ishiguro to bestselling novelist Naomi Alderman. This year, we introduced the UEA Young Writer Award, a new writing competition that encourages secondary-school students […]
UEA Young Writer Award
Who Watches the Orang Besar? (UEA Young Writer Award, 1st prize)
What does it mean to pay attention to an artwork? To really pay attention – not scroll past, not glance, not skim the wall text and move on. It means giving up control. It means letting the artwork speak before you speak over it. When I first stood before Yee I-Lann’s Orang Besar Series, I […]
swipe (UEA Young Writer Award, 2nd prize)
ATTENTION Best pizza places in New York! Rubirosa! L’Industrie! Don Antonio! $16 a slice! ATTENTION How to take the best candid photos Always be posing That way it’s still candid ATTENTION $800 Shein haul! Ignore the child laborers, I’m giving them a job ATTENTION 4.0, 1600, Rejected, rejected, rejected ATTENTION Anti-wrinkle straw morning shed buccal […]
Bertha (UEA Young Writer Award, 3rd Prize)
Good people? That’s some funny joke. Friends, family—everyone’s been gone for long. All I have left is a half-empty, insentient, floral refrigerator in the kitchen. Tacky, really. Even a vampire would flinch at how dreadfully crimson it is. A gigantic white magnolia is painted across both doors—a tragically large mistake if you ask me. Several […]
