Mushens Entertainment Award announced for UEA’s Creative Writing MA in Crime Fiction
By: Communications
Leading literary agency Mushens Entertainment has partnered with UEA to offer the Mushens Entertainment Award, worth £3,000, for a student on the Creative Writing MA in Crime Fiction. The winner will be chosen based on the first 10,000 words of a students’ crime novel-in-progress, at the halfway point of the two-year course.
The MA, founded in 2015, has established itself as the most successful such academic genre novel writing course in the world. Bestselling, award-winning graduates include Harriet Tyce, Emma Styles, Trevor Wood, Femi Kayode.
Course Director, Prof Henry Sutton, said:
‘We’re thrilled to have a new partnership with leading literary agency Mushens Entertainment. This highly significant industry endorsement of the course will greatly enable more talented students to achieve the success they deserve.
“We look forward to working with Juliet Mushens and her team, and to help shape the future of crime fiction.”
The two-year, part time, low-residential course prides itself on accessibility, inclusivity and convention challenging approaches to creative writing and crime fiction.
Juliet Mushens of Mushens Entertainment, said:
“The quality of UEA’s crime writing cohort is impressive: we’re delighted to be working with them to help support the next generation of talent.”
The Mushens Entertainment Award joins the MA’s other prize, the UEA Little, Brown Prize, awarded to the best full length crime novel by a graduating student.
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