A Gift from Sir Malcolm Bradbury: The Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarships

The Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarships are helping to bring talented writers to UEA. 

Made in memory of the UEA Creative Writing programme’s co-founder, the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarships continue Malcolm’s living achievements. 

Since the first award in 2006, over 20 scholarships have been awarded to writers who might not otherwise have been able to afford to join UEA’s prestigious MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) programme. 

The scholarships are awarded by the Malcolm Bradbury Trust, also created in his memory, on grounds of ability and financial need. They allow students from a wider range of backgrounds to benefit from the teaching expertise at UEA. 

Past scholars include Prof Christie Watson, winner of the 2011 Costa First Novel Award for Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away and Sunday Times bestselling writer Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. 

Matthew Bradbury said, “My father would be delighted to know that the programme he so carefully built over 25 years will continue to help aspiring writers fulfil their enormous potential.”

Sir Malcolm Bradbury CBE

In 1970, Profs Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson co-founded the Creative Writing MA at UEA, the first course of its kind in the UK. 

Malcolm, who authored more than 40 books of fiction, non-fiction and criticism, continued to teach on the programme until 1995, offering vital guidance to alumni including John Boyne, Anne Enright, Giles Foden, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, OBE and Ian McEwan, CBE.