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Friday 17 May 2013 University of East Anglia Norwich Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08 For full details: http://sifa.uea.ac.uk/news-and-events/orientations

Friday 17 May 2013 University of East Anglia Norwich Elizabeth Fry Building 01.08 For full details: http://sifa.uea.ac.uk/news-and-events/orientations

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2013 As part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2013, members of staff from LDC will be leading a series of conversations and workshops on topics including politicomics, children's picture books, literary translation  and the fascinations of fairy tales. Download the leaflet (PDF).

University of East Anglia 8 - 12 July 2013 FLY is the University of East Anglia's Festival of Literature for Young People. It is for everyone aged 11-17, whether you have a passion for poetry or prose, song lyrics or sci-fi, blogs or graphic novels, whether you are a book worm or have never really got into books. There are lots of events during the Festival. Visit our What's On page to see the full line-up.

Following the success of its first week-long writing course in March this year, UEA will be organizing a second course to be held in Calcutta from July 16th- 24th 2013. The focus of the July course will be on non-fiction writing. It will be led by award-winning author  and  UEA professor of contemporary literature  Amit Chaudhuri and the acclaimed biographer and historian Patrick French. The course is for writers interested in biography, the essay, travel writing,...

Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust Fundraiser (Wed 28 Nov 2012) In 1970 Malcolm Bradbury co-founded (with Angus Wilson) the UEA Creative Writing MA, the first course of its kind in the UK. He taught on the programme until his retirement in 1995, and counted among his many successful students the future Booker prizewinners, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright. A prolific and influential scholar and author, he wrote over forty books of non-fiction and criticism, as well as numerous...

‘And Andrea’ is a new short story by current UEA Creative Writing MA student David Whelan and is published in the current edition of nth position – www.nthposition.com. Earlier this year David (pictured) published stories in the Valley Press ‘Front Lines’ anthology and the journals Five, Prole 8, Litro, and the New Voices section of Untitled Books, which this year also featured 2005 graduate Emily Midorikawa, and 2006 graduate Liz Adams. ‘The Visit’, a short story by recent graduate Buku...

Catch-up with a video recording of A D Miller's visit to the University of East Anglia on Monday 12 November 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of  Snowdrops , A D Miller in conversation with Henry Sutton (LDC) Monday 12 November 2012 In association with the Booker Prize Foundation Born in London in 1974, A D Miller studied literature at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. From 2004 to 2007 he was Moscow correspondent for the  Economist...

‘Another Country’, the second novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph, has been longlisted for this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize, which is worth $30,000 to the winner. Anjali (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction strand of the Creative Writing MA in 2008, and is currently completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA, where she teaches on the undergraduate Creative Writing programme. ‘Another Country’ was written for her PhD, and was published earlier this year by 4th Estate....

Current UEA student Colette Sensier will be reading this evening at the launch of ‘Things That Have Happened’, an anthology of new writing published by Treehouse Press in association with Flight 2012, a mentoring scheme for five young writers organized by Spread the Word and run in partnership with the Poetry School. The event happens at Keats House in London and will also feature two of the mentors, Bernardine Evaristo and Shaun Levin. Colette (pictured) was born in Brighton in 1988 and...