MA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Tiffany Atkinson, Holly Corfield Carr
Fiction: Trezza Azzopardi, Stephanie Bishop, Giles Foden, Jean McNeil, Tessa McWatt, Henry Sutton, Naomi Wood
Nonfiction: Claire Hynes, Ian Thomson
Crime Fiction: Nathan Ashman, Tom Benn, Henry Sutton
Scriptwriting: Sian Evans, James McDermott, Ben Musgrave, Steve Waters
The program offers full and partial funding. Scholarships range from a £1,000 fee waiver to the Booker Foundation Scholarship, which covers fees and living expenses to a value of £25,000. Read more about Postgraduate Creative Writing Scholarship opportunities here.
The Egg Box imprint of the UEA Publishing Project publishes an annual anthology in five separate volumes (Prose Fiction, Poetry, Scriptwriting, Nonfiction, Crime Writing) of graduate work.
The program offers a two-year, part-time online course in crime fiction as well as courses in scriptwriting and biography.
Recent visiting professors and fellows to the program include: Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Vahni Capeldeo, Inua Ellams, Caryl Phillips, Ian Rankin, Ali Smith, and Preti Taneja.
UEA’s international literary festival, UEA Live, a rolling program of writer events, has been running since 1992 and has regularly featured writers such as Junot Díaz, Richard Ford, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Salman Rushdie, George Saunders, William Styron, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Graduates of the University of East Anglia’s graduate creative writing program include John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Deborah Davis, Anne Enright, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan. Details can be found on the UEA website.