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Writing Fellowships

Since the inception of the Creative Writing MA, the school of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing has been host to numerous practising novelists, poets, dramatists and translators as Writing Fellows.

Through the generosity of private benefactors we are able to host the Charles Pick and David T.K. Wong Fellowships, worth £10,000 and £26,000 respectively.  The Royal Literary Fund currently supports two Writing Fellows, while the New Writing Partnership in association with Arts Council England, East, supports the long-running UEA Writing Fellowship. The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) hosts two Translators in Residence in the Spring semester with the support of the Charles Wallace India Trust, and various occasional Writing Fellows are appointed by the School, most recently Nancy Lee as the Canadian Writing Fellow, Helon Habila as the African Writing Fellow, and the Australian scholar and novelist Catherine Cole as a Teaching Fellow.  In 2008 we appointed six Distinguished Writing Fellows with a longstanding connection to UEA and an international literary reputation: Louis de Bernieres, Richard Holmes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain.
 

A Visitor's View

In 2011, the Turkish writer and scholar Berkan Ulu visited the Creative Writing programme as a Teaching Fellow. A graduate in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, he completed his PhD at Ankara University before joining Inonu University as a Senior Lecturer, becoming one of the co-founders of the Western Languages and Literatures Department. He is an executive member of IDEA (English Language and Research Association of Turkey). His first novels İkra and Gün will be published in early 2012. Here he reflects upon his time at UEA.

UEA Writing Fellowship

In 1971 the university announced the foundation of a Writing Fellowship, to be awarded annually to a writer of established reputation.  The Fellow is provided with accommodation on campus and is encouraged to pursue his or her own writing while contributing to the teaching of creative writing in the School.  Now jointly administered by UEA and the New Writing Partnership, the Fellowship has been supported since its inception by Arts Council England, East (formerly Eastern Arts).

For the academic session 2009-10 two Fellows were appointed, both UEA Creative Writing alumni and prize-winning novelists.  James Scudamore was the Fellow in the Autumn semester, and Jeremy Page in the Spring semester.

Previous Fellows have been:


The Charles Pick Fellowship

This Fellowship is dedicated to the memory of the distinguished publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick, whose career began in 1933 and continued until shortly before his death in January 2000. He encouraged young writers at the start of their careers with introductions to other writers and practical and financial help. Of six months duration and worth £10,000, the Fellowship seeks to continue this spirit of encouragement by giving support to the development of a new and as yet unpublished prose writer. This year (2011-12) there have been two Charles Pick Fellows, Will Boast and Helen Dinmore.

Previous holders have been:


The David T. K. Wong Fellowship

This generous annual award of £26,000 is intended to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year developing his or her work while at UEA. The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr. David Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of fiction. The current David TK Wong Fellow is Presca Ahn.

Previous David T.K. Wong Fellows have been:

Royal Literary Fund Fellowships

The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a benevolent fund for assisting professional published authors and for the advancement of public education. In 1999 it launched a Fellowship scheme that places writers of established literary merit in universities and colleges to offer writing support to students in all disciplines. Typically a Fellowship lasts for one year, and the Fellow is available on a one-to-one basis to students for two days a week. The rest of the week is free for the Fellow to concentrate on her or his own writing. UEA's current Fellows are TV and radio dramatist Sue Teddern and translator Nick Caistor

Previous RLF Fellows have been:

  • novelist Jill Dawson (2000-2001)
  • translator Anthony Vivis (2001-2002)
  • novelist Andrew Cowan (2002-04)
  • translator Lakshmi Holmstrom (2003-05)
  • novelist, essayist and short story writer Clive Sinclair (2004-06)
  • children's author Joyce Dunbar (2006-2009)
  • novelist, memoirist and short story writer Stephen Foster (2007-2009)
  • screenwriter and non-fiction writer Keith Tutt (2009-10)

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