UEA Creative Writing Course
The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970. The M.A. is widely regarded as the most prestigious and successful in the country and competition for places is notoriously tough.
The course is split into four strands: Prose, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry and Scriptwriting (which is Skillset accredited). All four result in an M.A. qualification upon successful completion of the course. The Course Directors are currently Andrew Cowan, Kathryn Hughes, Lavinia Greenlaw and Val Taylor respectively. Course tutors include Amit Chaudhuri, Trezza Azzopardi, Giles Foden, Tobias Jones, James Lasdun, Margaret Atwood and George Szirtes.
Writers such as Angela Carter, Rose Tremain, Andrew Motion, W. G. Sebald, Michèle Roberts and Patricia Duncker have also taught on the course.
Writers-in-residence have included Alan Burns[1] and Margaret Attwood.
Notable alumni
Booker Prize winners
Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan
Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize winner Anne Enright
- Anne Enright (MA, 1988), Booker Prize–winning author
- Kazuo Ishiguro (MA, 1980), Booker Prize–winning author
- Ian McEwan (MA, 1971), Booker Prize–winning author
Costa Book Award winners
Costa Book Award winner Adam Foulds
- Tash Aw (MA, 2003), Whitbread Book Award–winning novelist
- Susan Fletcher (MA, 2002), Whitbread Book Award–winning novelist
- Adam Foulds (MA, 2001), Costa Book Award–winning poet
- Andrew Miller (MA, 1991), Costa Book Award–winning novelist
- Christie Watson (MA, 2009), Costa Book Award–winning novelist
Other alumni
Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier
Novelist John Boyne
- Naomi Alderman (MA, 2003), novelist
- Nicholas Allan (MA, 1981), children's author
- Trezza Azzopardi (MA, 1998), novelist
- Martyn Bedford (MA, 1994), novelist
- Brett Ellen Block (MA, 1998), author
- Peter Bowker (MA, 1991), screenwriter
- John Boyne (MA, 1996), novelist
- Aifric Campbell (MA, 2003), writer
- Tracy Chevalier (MA, 1994), historical novelist
- Judy Corbalis (MA, 1990), novelist
- Andrew Cowan (MA, 1985), novelist
- Helen Cross (MA, 1998), novelist
- Fflur Dafydd (MA, 2000), writer
- Donna Daley-Clarke (MA, 2001), novelist
- Louise Doughty (MA, 1987), novelist
- Suzannah Dunn (MA, 1989), novelist
- Joe Dunthorne (MA, 2005), novelist
- Susan Elderkin (MA, 1994), author
- Oliver Emanuel (MA, 2002), playwright
- Diana Evans (MA, 2003), novelist
- Stephen Finucan (MA, 1996), short story writer
- David Flusfeder (MA, 1988), author
- Bo Fowler (MA, 1995), novelist
- Ruth Gilligan (MA, 2011), writer
- Tim Guest (MA, 1999), author
- Stephanie Hale (MA, 1993), writer
- Mohammed Hanif (MA, 2005), writer
- Jane Harris (MA, 1992), novelist and screenwriter
- Alix Hawley (MA, 2002), novelist
- Kathryn Hughes (MA, 1987), historian
- Mick Jackson (MA, 1992), novelist
- Christopher James (MA, 2000), poet
- Anjali Joseph (MA, 2008), author
- Panos Karnezis (MA, 2000), novelist
- Larissa Lai (MA, 2001), novelist
- Hernán Lara Zavala (MA 1981), novelist
- Joanna Laurens (MA, 2003), playwright
- Ágnes Lehóczky (MA, 2006), poet
- Frances Liardet (MA, 2000), translator of Arabic literature
- Toby Litt (MA, 1995), novelist
- Philip MacCann (MA), writer
- Deirdre Madden (MA, 1985), novelist
- Robert McGill (MA, 2002), writer
- Sarah Emily Miano (MA, 2002), author
- Neel Mukherjee (MA, 2001), writer
- Paul Murray (MA, 2001), novelist
- Sandra Newman (MA, 2002), writer
- Kate North (MA, 2000), writer
- Kathy Page (MA, 1988), novelist
- Glenn Patterson (MA, 1986), novelist
- Christine Pountney (MA, 1997), author
- Dina Rabinovitch (MA, 2000), journalist and writer
- Lauren Razavi (MA, 2014), journalist and writer
- Ben Rice (MA, 2000), novelist
- Eliza Robertson (MA, 2012), author
- Anthony Sattin (MA, 1984), writer
- Simon Scarrow (MA, 1992), author
- James Scudamore (MA, 2004), novelist
- Owen Sheers (MA, 1998), author, poet and playwright
- Jeremy Sheldon (MA, 1996), novelist
- Robert Sheppard (MA, 1979), poet
- Kathryn Simmonds (MA, 2002), poet
- Paul Stewart (MA, 1979), writer
- Julia Stuart (MA, 2013), novelist
- Todd Swift (MA, 2004), poet
- Mark Tilton (MA, 1997), screenwriter
- Carol Topolski (MA, 2004), novelist
- Erica Wagner (MA, 1991), author and literary editor of The Times
- Craig Warner (MA, 2013), playwright and screenwriter
- Matt Whyman (MA, 1992), novelist
- Clare Wigfall (MA, 2000), writer
- Luke Williams (MA, 2002), author
- D. W. Wilson (MA, 2010), author
- Jennifer Wong (MA, 2009), writer and poet
External links
- UEA Creative Writing webpages
References
- ↑ Ian McEwan (1995). "Class Work".
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