The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by

Sir Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Life Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 wit ...

and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970. The M.A. has been regarded among the most prestigious in the United Kingdom. The course allows specialisation in the following strands:

Prose Prose is language that follows the natural flow or rhythm of speech, ordinary grammatical structures, or, in writing, typical conventions and formatting. Thus, prose ranges from informal speaking to formal academic writing. Prose differs most n ...

Creative Non-Fiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts ...

Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

Scriptwriting Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession. Screenwriters are responsible for researching the story, deve ...

(which is

Skillset A skill is the learned or innate ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. Some examples of gene ...

accredited) and

Crime Fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professiona ...

. In 2024, a new strand, MA Creative Writing, which allows students to work across different literary forms, was launched. Each strand results in an M.A. qualification upon successful completion of the course. Course Directors have included

Andrew Cowan Andrew Cowan (13 December 1936 – 15 October 2019) was a Scottish rally driver, and the founder and senior director of Mitsubishi Ralliart until his retirement on 30 November 2005. Early years Cowan was raised in Duns, a small town in the ...

, Tessa McWatt, Tiffany Atkinson,

Steve Waters Steve Waters is a British playwright. He was born in Coventry, UK. He studied English at Oxford University, taught in secondary schools and was a graduate of David Edgar's MA in Playwriting in 1993, a course which he later ran for several years. ...

Kathryn Hughes Kathryn Hughes (born 1959) is a British academic, journalist and biographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Life She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and the Univer ...

Lavinia Greenlaw Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Pri ...

, and Henry Sutton. Writers teaching on the course in recent years have included

Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Ashoka University. He was previously professor of contemporary ...

Trezza Azzopardi Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes. Early life Azzopardi was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at ...

Giles Foden Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)George Stade and Karen Karbiener (eds), ''Encyclopaedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present'', 2nd edn, Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 176. is an English author, best known for his novel '' The Last King of ...

, Tobias Jones,

James Lasdun James Lasdun (born 8 June 1958) is an English novelist and poet. Life and career Lasdun was born in London, the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir Denys Lasdun. Lasdun has written four novels, including , a New York Times Notable B ...

Jean McNeil Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. ...

and

George Szirtes George Szirtes (; born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the ...

. Writers such as

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...

Rose Tremain Dame Rose Tremain (born 2 August 1943) is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Life Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on 2 August 1943 in London to Viola Mabel Thomson and ...

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and a ...

W. G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to ''The New Yorker'' ”widely recog ...

Michèle Roberts Michèle Brigitte Roberts FRSL (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet. She is the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother (Monique Caulle) and English Protestant father (Reginald Roberts), and has dual UK–France national ...

and

Patricia Duncker Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic. Academic career Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of Noel Aston Duncker (1904–1973), an accountant, and Sheila Joan (née Beer) (1918–2016), a teacher, H ...

have also taught on the course. Writers-in-residence have included Alan Burns and Margaret Atwood.

Ali Smith Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting". Early life and education Smith was born in Inverness on 24 A ...

has been a Writing Fellow and Visiting Professor on the programme. From 2021 to 2022,

Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, '' Nervous Conditions'' (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in ...

was the inaugural International Chair of Creative Writing.

Notable alumni

Nobel Prize winners

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2 ...

(MA, 1980), 2017

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laureate

Booker Prize winners

Anne Enright Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called ''Mak ...

(MA, 1987), 2007

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...

winner for ''

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'' *

(MA, 1980), 1989

winner for ''

The Remains of the Day ''The Remains of the Day'' is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England. In 1 ...

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of the ...

(MA, 1971), 1998

winner for ''

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Costa Book Award winners

Tash Aw Tash Aw , whose full name is Aw Ta-Shi (; born 4 October 1971) is a Malaysian writer living in London. Biography Born in 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan, to Malaysians, Malaysian parents, Tash Aw returned to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the age of two, ...

(MA, 2003),

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winner in the 2005 First Novel category for ''

The Harmony Silk Factory ''The Harmony Silk Factory'' (2005) is Tash Aw's critically acclaimed first novel, set in 1940s British-ruled Malaya, which is now called Malaysia. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Whitbread Book Awards for First Novel Aw ...

'' * Susan Fletcher (MA, 2002),

winner in the 2004 First Novel category for '' Eve Green'' *

Adam Foulds Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL ( ; born 8 October 1974) is a British novelist and poet. Biography Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative w ...

(MA, 2000), Costa Book Award winner in the 2008 Poetry category for ''The Broken Word'' * Emma Healey (MA, 2011), Costa Book Award winner in the 2014 First Novel category for '' Elizabeth is Missing'' * Andrew Miller (MA, 1991), Costa Book Award winner in the 2011 Novel category for '' Pure'' *

Monique Roffey Monique Pauline Roffey (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist. Her novels have been much acclaimed, winning awards including the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for ''Archipelago'', and the Costa Book o ...

(BA, 1987), Costa Book Award winner in the 2020 Novel category for ''

The Mermaid of Black Conch ''The Mermaid of Black Conch'' is the sixth novel by Monique Roffey, published in 2020. Development Roffey first conceived of the novel's mermaid during a 2013 trip to Charlotteville, Tobago. In 2019, Roffey launched a Crowdfunder campaign ...

'' * Christie Watson (MA, 2009), Costa Book Award winner in the 2011 First Novel category for ''Tiny Sunbirds Far Away''

Women's Prize for Fiction winners

Naomi Alderman Naomi Alderman (born 1974) is an English novelist, Game design, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel ''The Power (Alderman novel), The Power'', which won the Women's Prize f ...

(MA, 2003), 2017

Women's Prize for Fiction The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's ...

winner for '' The Power'' *

(BA, 1967), 2008

winner for '' The Road Home''

Betty Trask Award & Prize winners

* Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (PHD, 2019) 2017

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winner for ''Harmless Like You'' * Sam Byers (MA, 2003; PHD, 2014) 2014

winner for ''Idiopathy'' * Anthony Cartwright (BA, 1996) 2004

winner for ''The Afterglow'' * Helen Cross (MA, 1997) 2002

winner for ''My Summer of Love'' * Suzannah Dunn (MA, 1989) 1991

winner for ''Quite Contrary'' * Susan Elderkin (MA, 1994) 2000

winner for '' Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains'' * Diana Evans (MA, 2003) 2005

winner for ''26a'' * Susan Fletcher (MA, 2002) 2005 Betty Trask Prize winner for ''Eve Green'' *

(MA, 2000) 2007

winner for ''The Truth About These Strange Times'' * Imogen Hermes Gowar (MA, 2014) 2019

winner for ''The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock'' * Emma Healey (MA, 2011) 2015

winner for '' Elizabeth is Missing'' *

Anjali Joseph Anjali Joseph (born 1978) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, '' Saraswati Park'' (2010), earned her several awards, including the Betty Trask Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, ''Another Country'', was released in 2012. In ...

(MA, 2008; PHD, 2013) 2011 Betty Trask Prize winner for '' Saraswati Park'' * Frances Liardet (MA, 1998) 1994

winner for ''The Game'' *

Nicola Monaghan Nicola Monaghan, (also known as Niki Valentine) is an English novelist and author of ''The Killing Jar (novel), The Killing Jar'', ''Starfishing'' and ''The Okinawa Dragon''. She grew up in Nottingham, England, and gave up a career in finance to ...

(MA, 2018) 2006

winner for '' The Killing Jar'' *

Glenn Patterson Glenn Patterson FRSL (born 1961) is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known as a novelist. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Early life Patterson was born in Belfast, where he attended Methodist Col ...

(MA, 1986) 1988

winner for ''Burning Your Own'' *

Natasha Pulley Natasha Katherine Pulley (born 4 December 1988) is a British author. She is best known for her debut novel, ''The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'', which won a Betty Trask Award. Pulley has also been an associate lecturer in creative writing at ...

(MA, 2012) 2017

winner for ''The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'' *

Phil Whitaker Phil Whitaker (born 1966) is an English novelist, physician, and medical commentator. Education and writings Whitaker, born in Kent, qualified in medicine at the University of Nottingham in 1990. He undertook postgraduate training in general pra ...

(MA, 1996) 1998

winner for ''

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize winners

(MA, 1971)

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winner in the 2005 Fiction category for ''

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'' * Andrew Miller (MA, 1991)

winner in the 1997 Fiction category for '' Ingenious Pain'' *

(BA, 1967)

winner in the 1993 Fiction category for ''

Sacred Country ''Sacred Country'' is a novel by English author Rose Tremain. It was published in 1992 by Sinclair-Stevenson and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Prix Femina étranger. It has been compared to Virginia Woolf's ''Orlando''. Plot ...

Other alumni

Nicholas Allan Nicholas Allan (born 11 December 1956) is a British children's writer and illustrator. Biography Nicholas Allan was born and brought up in Brighton, England, attending Brighton College from 1970 to 1975. He studied at the Slade School of A ...

(MA, 1981), children's author *

Mona Arshi Mona Arshi is a British poet and novelist. She won the Forward Prize for Poetry, Best First Collection in 2015 for her debut collection, ''Small Hands''. She has also won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her debut novel, ''Somebody Loves You'', w ...

(MA, 2012), Forward Prize-winning poet *

(MA, 1998), novelist * Martyn Bedford (MA, 1994), novelist * Brett Ellen Block (MA, 1998), author *

Peter Bowker Peter Bowker (born 5 January 1959) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the television serials ''Blackpool (TV series), Blackpool'' (2004), a musical drama about a shady casino owner in the Northern England, north of En ...

(MA, 1991), screenwriter *

John Boyne John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish author, novelist, and writer. He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas, and one collection of short stories. Boyne's historical novel '' The Boy in ...

(MA, 1996), novelist *

Aifric Campbell Aifric Campbell is an Irish writer. Her novel ''On the Floor'' has been longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her writing has appeared in ''The Irish Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Tatler'', ''ELLE'', and ''Sunday Business Post''. ...

(MA, 2003), writer *

Tracy Chevalier Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'', which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Personal backgroun ...

(MA, 1994), historical novelist *

Judy Corbalis Judy Corbalis is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand. She graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1991. She serves on the advisory council of the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museu ...

(MA, 1990), novelist *

(MA, 1985), novelist *

Fflur Dafydd Fflur Dafydd (born 1 August 1978) is a Welsh novelist, singer-songwriter and musician. Though mainly publishing in Welsh, she also writes in English. She contributes regularly in Welsh to Radio Cymru. Early life Dafydd is the daughter of Wels ...

(MA, 2000), writer * Donna Daley-Clarke (MA, 2001), novelist *

Louise Doughty Louise Doughty is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her bestselling novels, including ''Apple Tree Yard''.

(MA, 1987), novelist *

Joe Dunthorne Joe Dunthorne (born 14 January 1982) is a Welsh novelist, poet and journalist. He made his name with his novel ''Submarine'' (2008), made into a film in 2010. His second novel, ''Wild Abandon'' (2011), won the RSL Encore Award. A selection of ...

(MA, 2005), novelist * Oliver Emanuel (MA, 2002), playwright * Stephen Finucan (MA, 1996), short story writer * David Flusfeder (MA, 1988), author * Bo Fowler (MA, 1995), novelist *

Ruth Gilligan Ruth Gilligan (born 12 March 1988) is an Irish writer, journalist and university lecturer, born in Dublin. Early life Gilligan's father was an accountant and her mother a speech therapist. Her brother David is ten years her senior, and the famil ...

(MA, 2011), writer *

Tim Guest Tim Guest (16 July 1975 – 31 July 2009) (also known as Yogesh and Errol Mysterio) was an English author and journalist. Early childhood When he was four, Guest was left in the UK by his psychologist mother, Anne Geraghty, who went to India an ...

(MA, 1999), author *

Mohammed Hanif Mohammed Hanif (born November 1964) is a British-Pakistani writer and journalist''.'' His work has been published by ''The New York Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Washington Post''. Hanif worked as a corresponde ...

(MA, 2005), writer *

Graeme Harper Graeme Richard Harper (born 11 March 1945) is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run (1963� ...

(PhD, 1997), writer *

Jane Harris Jane Harris may refer to: * Jane Harris (producer), British television director and producer * Jane Harris (writer) (born 1961), British writer of fiction and screenplays * Jane Harris (''Neighbours''), a fictional character in the Australian so ...

(MA, 1992), novelist and screenwriter * Alix Hawley (MA, 2002), novelist *

(MA, 1987), historian * Naomi Ishiguro (MA, 2018), author * Mick Jackson (MA, 1992), novelist * Christopher James (MA, 2000), poet *

Panos Karnezis Panagiotis Karnezis (; born 1967 in Amaliada), known as Panos Karnezis, is a Greek people, Greek writer. Born in Greece, he moved to England in 1992 to study Engineering. He was later awarded a Master of Arts, M.A. in Creative Writing by the Unive ...

(MA, 2000), novelist *

Larissa Lai Larissa Lai (born 1967) is an American-born Canadian novelist and literary critic. She is a recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and Lambda Literary Foundation's 2020 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Pr ...

(MA, 2001), novelist *

Hernán Lara Zavala Hernán Lara Zavala (28 February 1946 – 15 March 2025) was a Mexican novelist, literary critic and academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Life and career Lara Zavala was educated at the National Autonomous Universit ...

(MA 1981), novelist * Joanna Laurens (MA, 2003), playwright *

Ágnes Lehóczky Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian-British poet, academic, and translator born in Budapest in 1976. Biography Early life and education Lehóczky completed her master's degree in English and Hungarian Literature at the Pázmány Péter Catholic Univ ...

(MA, 2006), poet *

Toby Litt Toby Litt (born 1968) is an English writer and academic based at the University of Southampton. Life Litt was born in Ampthill, England, in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied C ...

(MA, 1995), novelist *

Philip MacCann Philip MacCann is a British author. Born in Manchester, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and later studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. His first book, ''The Miracle Shed'' (1995), a collecti ...

(MA), writer *

Deirdre Madden Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Career Madden was born in Toome, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School in Magherafelt. She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to th ...

(MA, 1985), novelist * Robert McGill (MA, 2002), writer * Sarah Emily Miano (MA, 2002), author * Neel Mukherjee (MA, 2001), writer * Paul Murray (MA, 2001), novelist *

Sandra Newman Sandra Newman (born November 6, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer. She has a BA from Polytechnic of Central London, and an MA from the University of East Anglia. Newman's first novel, ''The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever D ...

(MA, 2002), writer *

Kathy Page Kathy Page (born 8 April 1958) is a British-Canadian writer. She is the author of seven previous novels, including ''The Story of My Face'' (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002) and ''Alphabet'' (nominated for the Governor General's Literary ...

(MA, 1988), novelist *

Sandeep Parmar Sandeep Parmar is a contemporary poet, who was born in Nottingham, England, and raised in Southern California. She currently lives in London. Parmar is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is a Fellow of the Royal ...

(MA, 2003), poet * Christine Pountney (MA, 1997), author * Dina Rabinovitch (MA, 2000), journalist and writer * Ben Rice (MA, 2000), novelist *

Eliza Robertson Eliza K. Robertson is a Canadian writer. Education Robertson studied creative writing and political science at the University of Victoria and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2012, where she pursue ...

(MA, 2012), author *

Anthony Sattin Anthony Sattin FRGS is a British journalist, broadcaster and travel writer. His main areas of interest is the Middle East and Africa, particularly Egypt, and he has lived and travelled extensively in these regions. Education Sattin completed a l ...

(MA, 1984), writer *

Simon Scarrow Simon Scarrow (born 3 October 1962) is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form ...

(MA, 1992), author * James Scudamore (MA, 2004), novelist *

Owen Sheers Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer-in-residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team. Early life Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji, and was ...

(MA, 1998), author, poet and playwright *

Jeremy Sheldon Jeremy Sheldon (born 1971) is a British screenwriter, author and lecturer. Sheldon was educated at Eton College and at the University of East Anglia where he graduated with a degree in English Literature and Philosophy and an MA in Creative Writi ...

(MA, 1996), novelist * Robert Sheppard (MA, 1979), poet * Kathryn Simmonds (MA, 2002), poet *

Rob Magnuson Smith Rob Magnuson Smith is a novelist, short story writer, journalist, and university lecturer. A dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, Smith currently resides in Cornwall. He has a BA in philosophy and a BA in psychology from Pi ...

(MA 2010), novelist * Paul Stewart (MA, 1979), writer * Julia Stuart (MA, 2013), novelist *

Todd Swift Stanley Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966), is a British-Canadian poet, screenwriter, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom. Background Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambe ...

(MA, 2004), poet * Rebecca Tamás (PHD, 2017), poet and essayist * Mark Tilton (MA, 1997), screenwriter *

Carol Topolski Carol Topolski (born 1949) is a British novelist. Before becoming a full-time writer she was a practising psychoanalytic psychologist and she drew on her experiences in writing her first novel, '' Monster Love'' which was published in 2008. Accor ...

(MA, 2004), novelist *

Erica Wagner Erica Wagner is an American author and critic, living in London, England. She is former literary editor of ''The Times''. Biography Erica Wagner was born in New York City in 1967. She grew up on the Upper West Side and went to the Brearley Sc ...

(MA, 1991), author and literary editor of

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Craig Warner Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. His play '' Strangers on a Train'', based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013� ...

(MA, 2013), playwright and screenwriter * Matt Whyman (MA, 1992), novelist *

Clare Wigfall Clare Wigfall (born 1976 in Greenwich, London) is a British writer. Her debut collection of short stories, ''The Loudest Sound and Nothing'', was published in 2007 and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She won th ...

(MA, 2000), writer * Luke Williams (MA, 2002), author * D. W. Wilson (MA, 2010), author * Jennifer Wong (MA, 2009), writer and poet *

Yan Ge Yan Ge (, pinyin: ''Yán Gē'', born December 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer Dai Yuexing (, pinyin: ''Dài Yuèxíng''). Life and career Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in December 1984 in the Pixian district of Chengdu. She began writin ...

(MA, 2020), novelist

References

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