PREVIOUS CREATIVE WRITING TUTORS
Julia Bell graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1996. She is the author of two novels for young adults, Massive and Dirty Work, and co-edited (with Paul Magrs) The Creative Writing Coursebook. She taught on the undergraduate programme for several years after graduation and currently teaches at Birkbeck.
John Boyne graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1995. He is the author of five novels, including the bestselling, multi-award-winning The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2005.
Aifric Campbell completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2003 and a PhD in 2007. Her first novel The Semantics of Murder was published in 2008 and her second The Loss Adjustor in 2010. She taught on the undergraduate programme in 2006 and 2007.
Doug Cowie completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000 and a PhD in 2007. His first novel Owen Noone and the Marauder was published by Canongate in 2005. He taught on the undergraduate programme between 2003 and 2005 and currently teaches at Royal Holloway.
Alastair Daniel completed an MA in Creative Writing with distinction at Goldsmiths Collge in 2002 and became the Charles Pick Writing Fellow at UEA in 2004. He has taught at St Martin’s College of Art in London, and is shortly to complete his first novel. He taught on the undergraduate programme in 2005.
Jill Dawson won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry, has edited several collections of short stories, and is the author of six novels, including Fred and Edie, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize. She was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes between 2002 and 2004.
Louis de Bernieres is the author of eight novels, including the international bestseller Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He is one of UEA’s Distinguished Writing Fellows, and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2002.
Joe Dunthorne graduated with first class honours from UEA's undergraduate Creative Writing degree in 2004, and with distinction from the Creative Writing MA in 2005, and was the recipient of the inaugural £7,500 Curtis Brown Award. His first novel Submarine was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2008 and he was recently published in the Faber New Poets scheme. Joe taught on the undergraduate programme.
Bernadine Evaristo is the author of two novels-in-verse, Lara (1997) and The Emperor’s Babe (2001), and a novel-with-verse, Soul Tourists (2005). Blonde Roots was published in 2008. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts and was a Writing Fellow at UEA in 2002, when she taught on the undergraduate programme.
Elaine Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of fourteen novels, a large body of journalism, several radio plays and TV dramas, and five biographies, most recently Anna Of All The Russias (2005). Her poetry has been widely translated and her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Society Special Commendation. She taught on the MA programme in the late 70s.
Alison Fell is a poet and novelist and has written journalism for a number of magazines, including Spare Rib. She was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize for her novel Mer de Glace and was a Writing Fellow at UEA in 1998, when she taught on the undergraduate programme.
Laura Fish completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2002 and a PhD in 2007. She is the author of Flight of Black Swans (1995) and Strange Music (2008). She taught on the undergraduate programme between 2004 and 2006.
David Flusfeder graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1988 and has published six novels, most recently A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010). He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2004.
Roger Garfitt is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Given Ground (1989), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2001.
Claire Hynes is completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. She is an experienced radio, TV and print journalist and is soon to complete her first novel. She taught Journalism and Prose Fiction on the undergraduate programme.
Russell Celyn Jones is the author of seven novels, including An Interference of Light (1995), Surface Tension (2001), and Second Nature (2005). He reviews regularly for the national newspapers and was a Booker Prize Judge in 2002. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the MA programme beween 1993 and 1995. He currently teaches at Birkbeck.
Stephen Knight has taught widely in schools and universities and is the author of three collections of poetry, two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize - Flowering Limbs (1993) and Dream City Cinema (1996). His novel Mr Schnitzel (2000) won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year in 2001. He taught on the MA in Prose Fiction in 2003-4. He currently teaches at Goldsmiths.
Michael Laskey founded the international Aldburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and the Smith’s Knoll poetry journal in 1991. He has published three collections of poetry, including The Tightrope Wedding, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He teaches on the undergraduate programme.
Sarah Law has published two collections of poetry with Stride, Bliss Triangle (1999) and The Lady Chapel (2003) and a third, Perihelion, with Shearsman (2006). She taught on the undergraduate programme in 2005-06. She currently teaches at London Metropolitan.
Toby Litt graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1995 and is the author of eleven books: Adventures in Capitalism (1996), Beatniks: An English Road Movie (1997), Corpsing (2000), Exhibitionism (2001), Deadkidsongs (2001), Finding Myself (2003), Ghost Story (2004), Hospital (2007), I play the drums in a band called okay (2008), Journey into Space (2009) and King Death (2010). He was a Creative Writing Fellow at UEA in 2008 and taught on the undergraduate programme.
K R Moorhead graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2007 and published her first novel, The First Law of Motion, in 2009. She taught on the undergraduate creative writing programmein 2009.
Esther Morgan completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1997. Her first collection of poetry, Beyond Calling Distance, won numerous awards including the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Her second collection, The Silence Living in Houses, was published in 2005. She taught on the undergarduate programme between 1988 and 2002.
Tiffany Murray completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1999 and a PhD in 2004. Her first novel Happy Accidents was published in 2005 and her second novel Diamond Star Halo in 2010. She taught on the undergraduate programme in 2003 and 2004 and currently teaches at the University of Glamorgan.
Derek Neale completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1993 and a PhD in 2000. He was a major contributor to the Open University’s Creative Writing coursebook and to the design of its Creative Writing programmes. He taught on the undergradute programme at UEA between 1994 and 2006 and currently organises Creative Writing courses for the Open University.
Jeremy Page graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1994 and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2010. He worked for several years as a scriptwriter and editor for FilmFour and the BBC and published his first novel 'Salt' in 2007. This was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the Jelf First Novel Award. His second novel The Wake was published in 2009. He taught on the undergraduate programme.
Kate Pullinger is the author of eight novels, including the novelisation of Jane Campion’s film The Piano (1994), two collections of short stories, two works of non-fiction, and the multimedia online novel Inanimate Alice (2006). She is additionally the editor of four anthologies of short stories. She taught on the MA programme between 2005 and 2006 and currently teaches at Leicester De Montford.
James Scudamore graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2004 and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2009. His first novel The Amnesia Clinic was published in 2007 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second novel Heliopolis was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. He is currently teaching at City University of Hong Kong.
Barrie Sherwood completed his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2009. He is the author of The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (2000) and Escape from Amsterdam (2007). He taught on the undergraduate programme in 2006 and 2007 and currently teaches at York St John University.
Ali Smith is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels, including Hotel World (2001), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Accidental (2004), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and won the Whitbread Novel Award. She was a Writing Fellow at UEA in 1999 and taught on the undergraduate programme.
Natasha Soobramanien is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and is now completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Her short fiction was included in the British Council’s annual anthology of new writing and she is shortly to complete her first novel, which was a recipient of an Arts Council award while in draft. She was a runner-up of the 2009 Bridport short story competition and recently contributed three chapters to Luke Williams’s novel The Echo Chamber. She co-organises Plum, a London-based live fiction event, with Luke, and taught on the UEA undergraduate programme.
Ashley Stokes is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and was Director of Creative Writing courses at UEA's School of Continuing Education and the Norwich School of Art & Design. He has published short fiction and reviews in a number of journals. He taught for several years on the undergraduate programme and his first novel Touching the Starfish was published in 2010.
Louise Tondeur completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2002 and is the author of two novels, The Water’s Edge (2003) and The Haven Home For Delinquent Girls (2004). She taught on the undergraduate programme in 2002 and currently teaches at Roehampton University.
Ardashir Vakil is the author of Beach Boy (1998), which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize, and One Day (2003), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award. He taught the MA in Prose Fiction in 2004/05 and currently teaches at Goldsmiths.
