Walking in to a thunderous round of applause, Shon Faye takes her seat at the front of the lecture theatre. Lawyer turned writer and campaigner, with podcast Call Me Mother, Faye’s works have reached mass audiences. Her first book, The Transgender Issue, is a liberating piece analysing the trans experience in the UK. As a…
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UEA LIVE: Courttia Newland creates Parallel Universes in A River Called Time
At his UEA Live event, Courttia Newland discusses his newest book, A River Called Time, and the parallel universes hidden within that world. He takes us on a journey of creative and intellectual imagination, of migration history, and of finding oneself whilst stumbling in fear. Newland normalises spiritualism and mysticism in the novel. His cultural…
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UEA Spring 2022 Line-up
After the Autumn success of UEA Live, the Spring line-up has just been announced! This term we had some stellar speakers, from Bimini Bon Boulash to Ed Miliband, and the Spring event looks just as exciting. Every Wednesday across March and May, with a date in April, guest speakers will be coming to the UEA…
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UEA Live: Ed Miliband on Boris, beards, and big ideas
Rivalled only by the Scottish pirate-themed heavy metal band playing in the LCR, Ed Miliband held an audience in the largest lecture theatre on campus to discuss his new book Go Big: How to fix our world on Thursday 9th December. Known by many as the leader of the Labour Party from 2010 to 2015, MP for Doncaster…
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UEA LIVE: MOLLY NAYLOR IN CONVERSATION WITH MALIKA BOOKER
November 17 saw UEA live host the poet and all-round multi-disciplinary artist, Malika Booker. In a conversation with poet and scriptwriter Molly Naylor, Booker spoke about her new poetry anthology Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different and Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Booker began by talking about the Poetry Kitchen collective, which is a place for writers…
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This One Sky Day: UEA Live with Leone Ross
At the beginning of November, I had the pleasure of seeing Leone Ross discuss her latest novel at UEA Live. This One Sky Day was fifteen years in the making, and listening to Ross speak, you can see why. The book is set in the fictional archipelago Popisho, a magical place inspired by the Caribbean….
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Elizabeth Day talks Motherhood, Fertility, and Failure at UEA Live
On 27th October, UEA Live was joined by Journalist and podcast host, Elizabeth Day, in discussing her current projects and latest novel, Magpie. Day starts off by joking about the plot twist of the book, and the trouble she has explaining Magpie without spoiling it. Magpie is a psychological thriller focussing on a young woman,…
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UEA Live : “Whatever #Merky Books will be… is powerful.”
Moving through their glorious panels, UEA Live welcomed the editors and authors alike from #Merky Books on the breezy evening of October 20th. #Merky Books, a publishing imprint created in 2018 by Stormzy, was created to publish books that were “underrepresented in society” and since then they’ve created pop-up events, literature festivals, and their New…
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UEA Live: Autumn 2021 Lineup
UEA Live is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a bang! The festival is dedicated to celebrating creativity across all platforms and literary types, inspiring audiences to read and create until their hearts are content. This event celebrates authors from all origins in a brilliant, beautiful way, and this year is no different. UEA Live will…
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