Prizewinners
UEA Creative Writing Alumni
SOME RECENT PRIZEWINNERS AND NOMINEES
Three graduates of the UEA Creative Writing MA have won the Booker Prize for Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro in 1989; Ian McEwan in 1998; and Anne Enright in 2007.
Eight graduates have also been shortlisted: McEwan in 1981, 1992, 2001, 2005 and 2007; Ishiguro in 1986, 2000, and 2005; Rose Tremain in 1990; Mick Jackson in 1997; Trezza Azzopardi in 2000; Andrew Miller in 2001; Tash Aw in 2005; and Adam Foulds in 2009.
In addition to these successes, graduates of the programme have won or been shortlisted for every other major literary award in the UK, including The Orange Prize, The Whitbread / Costa Award, The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, The Commonwealth Writers' Award, The Forward Prize, The T.S. Eliot Award, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Guardian First Book Award, The Walter Scott Prize, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Dylan Thomas Prize, The Betty Trask Award, The Encore Award, The Somerset Maugham Award, The Desmond Elliott Prize, The Ondaatje Prize, The Saltire Award, The Desmond Elliot Prize, The Authors' Club Award, The Eric Gregory Award, The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and the BBC National Short Story Award.
The following is a list of prizewinners and nominees since 2008.
2012
Naomi Alderman (MA 2003) Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative Award
Martyn Bedford (MA 1994) shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award
Tom Benn (BA 2009; MA 2010) shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature and the Dylan Thomas Prize; longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Aifric Campbell (MA 2003; PhD 2007) longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Mags Chalcraft (BA 2013) winner of the Bulbul 2012 First Annual Playwriting Competition
Carrie Chandler (MA 2010; current PhD) shortlisted for the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize
Tim Cockburn (MA 2010) shortlisted for EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards (2012)
Josephine Corcoran (MA 1989) winner of the Stafford Poetry Competition
Krishan Coupland (MA 2013) winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize
Joe Dunthorne (MA 2005) winner of the Encore Award; shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award
Anne Enright (MA 1987) shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Mohammed Hanif (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Encore Award
Jane Harris (MA 1992: PhD 1995) longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Denis Hirson (PhD 2004) shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize
Edward Hogan (MA 2004) shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Portico Prize for Literature
Mark Illis (MA 1987) shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature
Mariama Ives-Moiba (BA 2013) winner of the Trinity College International Playwriting Competition (one-act plays for audiences aged between 12-16).
Anjali Joseph (MA 2008; PhD 2013) longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize
Zoe Lambert (MA 2002) longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Tom Lee (BA 1993) shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Toby Litt (MA 1995) longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Emily Midorikawa (MA 2005) placed third in the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women
Andrew Miller (MA 1990) winner of the Costa Novel Award and the overall Costa Book Award; shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award
Esther Morgan (MA 1998) shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize
Sarah Ridgard (MA 2002) shortlisted for Amazon Rising Stars Award
Sam Riviere (PhD 2012) winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
Eliza Robertson (MA 2012) shortlisted for the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize
Anna Selby (BA 2004; MA 2005) The h.Club100 Award winner
Colette Sensier (MA 2013) Runner-up for the The Melita Hume Poetry Prize
Natasha Soobramanien (MA 2002; PhD 2010) shortlisted for Amazon Rising Stars Award and the Anobii First Book Award
Jon Stone (BA 2004) winner of an Eric Gregory Award
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Award
Christie Watson (MA 2008) winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the Waverton Good Read Award, and Red's Hot Women Award (‘Creative' category)
Jane Willis (MA 2001) winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize
DW Wilson (MA 2010; PhD 2013) shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the British Columbia Book Prize; longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Naomi Wood (MA 2008; PhD 2012) winner of the British Library Eccles Centre Writer-in-Residence Award
2011
Naomi Alderman (MA 2003) longlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award
David Almond (BA 1973) shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the UK Literacy Association Children's Book Award
Martyn Bedford (MA 1994) longlisted for the UK Literacy Association Children's Book Award
Tamara Britten (MA 2006) shortlisted for Hookline Novel Competition
Tim Bowler (MA 1992) longlisted for the UK Literacy Association Children's Book Award
John Boyne (MA 1995) longlisted for the UK Literacy Association Children's Book Award
Emily Bullock (MA 2004) winner of the Bristol Short Story Award
Maire Cooney (MA 2010) winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Award
EV Crowe (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright
Louise Doughty (MA 1987) shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Adam Foulds (MA 2000) winner of the Encore Award and the European Union Prize for Literature
Helon Habila (PhD 2008) shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Jane Harris (MA 1992; PhD 1995) shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award
Sue Healy (MA 2009) winner of the Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award, the Highlands & Islands Short Story Association competition, and the Sussex Playwrights' Club Annual Competition
Alex Ivey (MA 2010) longlisted for the Mslexia Women's Novel Competion
Anjali Joseph (MA 2008; PhD 2012) winner of a Betty Trask Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize, co-winner of the Vodaphone Crossword Book Award, and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Agnes Lehoczky (MA 2006; PhD 2010) winner of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize
Panos Karnezis (MA 2000) longlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award
Ian McEwan (MA 1971) awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and longlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award
Justine Mann (MA 2008) highly commended in the Bridport Short Story Award
Neel Mukherjee (MA 2001) shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Paul Murray (MA 2001) shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award (USA), and longlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award
Gayle O'Brien (MA 2005) winner of the Hookline Novel Competition
Janice Okoh (MA 2008) winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and runner-up for the Verity Bargate Award
KJ Orr (MA 2007) shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award
Jeremy Page (MA 1994) shortlisted for the New Angle Prize for East Anglian Literature
Meghan Purvis (MA 2006; PhD 2011) winner of the The Times Stephen Spender Prize
Sam Riviere (PhD 2012) shortlisted for The Times Stephen Spender Prize
Erin Soros (PhD 2012) longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Clare Wigfall (MA 2000) longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Luke Williams (MA 2002) winner of the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award
DW Wilson (MA 2010; PhD 2013) winner of the BBC National Short Story Award
Naomi Wood (MA 2008; PhD 2012) shortlisted for Amazon Rising Stars Award
2010
David Almond (BA 1973) winner of the Hans Christian Andersen medal and shortlisted for the Astrid Lindgren memorial award
Richard Beard (MA 1995) longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Jane Camens (MA 2004) winner of the Fish International Short Story Prize
Anthony Cartwright (BA 1996) shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Josephine Corcoran (MA 1997) runner-up for the Bridport Poetry Prize
Joe Dunthorne (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Susan Fletcher (MA 2002) shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book Award
Adam Foulds (MA 2000) winner of the South Bank Show literature prize and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Hattie Grunewald (BA 2013) selected for Poems on the Underground competition
Mick Jackson (MA 1992) winner East Anglian Book Awards: Book of the Year
Anjali Joseph (MA 2008; PhD 2012) shortlisted for Amazon Rising Stars Award, The Hindu Best Fiction Award and included in the Daily Telegraph list of Britain's best 20 novelists under the age of 40
Kate Kilalea (MA 2006) longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Richard Lambert (MA 2010) winner of the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition and the Kent and Sussex Poetry Competition, and runner-up in the Wigtown Poetry Competition
Agnes Lehoczky (MA 2006; PhD 2010) winner Daniil Pashkoff Prize for Creative Writing in English by a Non-Native Speaker
Ian McEwan (MA 1971) winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
Ret'sepile Makamane (MA 2010) runner-up for the Orange/Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition
Tracy Maylath (MA 2008) runner-up in The Guardian Short Story competition
Esther Morgan (MA 1998) winner of the Bridport Poetry Prize and third place in the Mslexia Poetry Competition
Neel Mukherjee (MA 2001) winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book Award
Paul Murray (MA 2001) longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
Tiffany Murray (MA 1999; PhD 1996) shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
JP Nosbaum (MA 2000) commended for the National Poetry Competition
KJ Orr (MA 2007) runner-up for the Bridport Short Story Prize
Sam Riviere (PhD 2012) commended for the National Poetry Competition
Cherry Smyth (MA 2000) commended for the National Poetry Competition
Jon Stone (BA 2004) commended for the National Poetry Competition
Anna Towers (MA 2007) winner of The Guardian Short Story competition
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award
Tom Warner (MA 2001) winner Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
D.W. Wilson (MA 2010; PhD 2013) runner-up in the Prism International Fiction Contest
2009
Naomi Alderman (MA 2003) shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award
Paul Batchelor (MA 2000) winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition and The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation
Tim Clare (MA 2004) winner of the Biography category of the East Anglian Book Awards
Fflur Dafydd (MA 2000) winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Oxfam Hay Prize for Emerging Writers
Sian Melangell Dafydd (MA 2006) winner of the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Gillian Daly (MA 2009) selected for the Arts Council Escalator scheme
Joe Dunthorne (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book and longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year
Laura Fish (MA 2002; PhD 2007) longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Adam Foulds (MA 2000) winner of the Costa Poetry Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Bel Greenwood (MA 2005) selected for the Arts Council Escalator scheme
Mohammed Hanif (MA 2005) winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book (Europe and South Asia) and the Literature Prize at the Corine International Book Awards (Germany) and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Edward Hogan (MA 2004) winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Meirion Jordan (PhD 2012) shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the East Anglian Book Awards
Mark McNay (MA 2004) shortlisted for Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Prize for Scottish Fiction
Deirdre Madden (MA 1985) shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Susanna Wade Martins (MA 2005) winner of the History category of the East Anglian Book Awards and shortlisted for the Biography category
Jeremy Page (MA 1994) winner of the Fiction and Poetry category of the East Anglian Book Awards
Linda Randall (MA 2006) shortlisted for the Biographer's Club Prize and selected for the Arts Council Escalator scheme
Sarah Ridgard (MA 2002) selected for the Arts Council Escalator scheme
Sam Riviere (PhD 2012) winner of an Eric Gregory Award and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize
James Scudamore (MA 2004) longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Alex Sheal (MA 2006) winner of The New Writer International Novella Prize
Natasha Soobramanien (MA 2002; PhD 2010) second place in the Bridport Short Story Prize
David Strickland (MA 2009) shortlisted for the Biscuit International Flash Fiction Prize
2008
Paul Batchelor (MA 2000) shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
Richard Beard (MA 1995) shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story award
Aifric Campbell (MA 2003; PhD 2007) shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Fiction
Joe Dunthorne (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Wodehouse Bolinger Prize, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Anne Enright (MA 1987) shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Adam Foulds (MA 2000) winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize, and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize.
Mohammed Hanif (MA 2005) shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Edward Hogan (MA 2004) shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Vikram Kapur (PhD 2010) shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Radiobooks Short Story Competition
Ian McEwan (MA 1971) winner of the Galaxy Book of the Year and the Reader's Digest Author of the Year awards
Mark McNay (MA 2004) shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize
James Midgley (BA 2008; MA 2010; PhD 2013) winner of an Eric Gregory Poetry Award
KJ Orr (MA 2007) shortlisted for the Asham Short Story Award
Eleanor Rees (MA 2002) shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry
Kathryn Simmonds (MA 2002) winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry and the Costa Poetry Award; longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Erin Soros (PhD 2012) shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story award
Carol Topolski (MA 2004) shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Guildford Book Festival First Novel Award
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Tat Usher (MA 2007) winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers award
Clare Wigfall (MA 2000) winner of the BBC National Short Story Award