On Wednesday evening, UEA’s Claire Hynes joined Bernardine Evaristo in conversation about her career, activism, and recent success with ‘Girl, Woman, Other’. Bernardine Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and she also is the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019 for her most recent novel, ‘Girl, Woman,…
Books
UEA Live: celebrating Lorna Sage’s life
As UEA Live celebrates 50 years of its Creative Writing MA, Wednesday’s discussion was about another anniversary: Lorna Sage’s memoir Bad Blood is turning 20. Chaired by Kathryn Hughes, this discussion of Sage’s life and book seems better described as a collective appreciation. From the speakers’ fond words, it is clear that the life of…
Books, Venue
UEA Live: Lee Child and Heather Martin on childhood, industry and the responsibility of the author
This year UEA is proudly celebrating 50 years of its Creative Writing course. UEA’s Autumn Literary Festival has not allowed distancing measures to interrupt their celebration, and instead are holding the seven-week series online, as UEA Live. Acclaimed crime author Lee Child kicked off the event on Wednesday night (7 October). Lee Child is a…
Arts, OldVenue
The Beginning of UEA Live
Thursday the 1st October marked this year’s first sessions of UEA Live, an evening of live readings by UEA students, alumni and emerging, if not already established authors, held in association with the Writers’ Centre Norwich. The beginning of UEA Live was also marked by a change in location having moved from its previous home…
Arts, OldVenue
UEA LIVE: An Evening of Eclectic Readings
Imagine: you’re in the warm, coffee-scented Epic Studios in Norwich. You are ensconced in the plush sofa seating. You are ready to hear some of Norwich’s finest creative minds gather together in an irrepressible explosion of Creative Writing. And after these performances, the bar for Creative Writing will be set ever higher. The last ‘UEA…