MA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Tiffany Atkinson, Holly Corfield Carr, Andrea Holland
Fiction: Trezza Azzopardi, Stephanie Bishop, Giles Foden, Jean McNeil, Tessa McWatt, Julianne Pachico, Henry Sutton, Naomi Wood
Nonfiction: Claire Hynes, Ian Thomson
Crime Fiction: Nathan Ashman, Tom Benn, Henry Sutton
Scriptwriting: Sian Evans, Richard Hand, James McDermott, Steve Waters
The program offers full and partial funding opportunities, depending on the program of study. Scholarships range from a £1,000 fee waiver to the Booker Prize 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 a series of annual anthologies representing the work of the graduating writers on each program (Prose Fiction, Poetry, Scriptwriting, Creative Nonfiction, Crime Writing).
The program offers a two-year, part-time online course in crime fiction.
Recent visiting professors and fellows to the program include: Raymond Antrobus, Ella Frears, Diana Evans, Margaret Atwood, Vahni Capildeo, 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, Rebecca Kuang, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Salman Rushdie, George Saunders, Zadie Smith, William Styron, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Graduates of the University of East Anglia’s graduate creative writing program include Ayobami Adebayo, Naomi Alderman, Tracy Chevalier, Deborah Davis, Joe Dunthorne, Anne Enright, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan. Details can be found on the UEA website.