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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Beautiful sunshine and scenes of solidarity on the first day of UEA UCU's next phase of industrial action. 🌞 #SaveUEA

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!

The black and white flyer for UEA UCU strike action aimed at students. It has an image of the famous ziggurats and text saying save jobs, save UEA, and our working conditions are your learning conditions

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

TOMORROW, THURSDAY MAY 1 is the final UEA New Writing Live reading event. PSYCHED to be hosting former MA Prose student Hanna Thomas Uose, reading from and discussing her rave-reviewed debut, Who Wants To Live Forever. Hear her PLUS stellar creative writing student readers FREE at Marzano's, 6-8pm

Purple background with background image of vintage mic. Inset image of Hanna Thomas Uose and inset image of book cover for Who Wants To Live Forever
NEW WRITING LIVE
University of
East Anglia
THURSDAY
MAY 1
6pm Bar Marzano, The Forum GUEST READER: HANNA THOMAS UOSE
Hanna Thomas Uose is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the Unpublished Writers of Colour and was shortlisted for the Orion/DHA Space to Write Project.
She was also selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. Hanna has spent the sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns with organisations such as 550.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Weltare ot Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse. Her debut novel, Who Wants to Live Forever was published on March 27 2025 and is a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
"Tomorrow, and
lomorrow
and
Tomorrow collides with Normal People in the universe of Everything
Everywhere All at Once in WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER, a time-bending, decades-long quest for immortality

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Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We're SO EXCITED to be hosting Hanna Thomas Uose for a reading and Q&A on her outstanding debut novel, Who Wants to Live Forever, at UEA New Writing Live at Marzano's, 6pm Thursday May 1. Free entry, plus readings from students of the UEA creative writing programmes! Please r/t/come and support us!

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Psyched to be welcoming Alice Franklin, author of Life Hacks for a Little Alien—published this week—as our special guest for UEA New Writing Live on March 20th ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Was WONDERFUL to have Tawseef Khan at the packed UEA New Writing Live event last week, and to hear writer Twishaa Tandon interviewing him ⭐️. Great readings from our current student cohort as always. Thanks again to @writerscentre.bsky.social for hosting us this month ❤️

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

***VENUE CHANGE*** Due to tech issues we're holding the Thursday February 6th event with Special Guest @tawseefkhan.bsky.social at @writerscentre.bsky.social's Dragon Hall. Huge thanks to NCW for stepping in to save the day. We have a cast of brilliant student readers in our line-up. See you there!

Purple image of retro mic with text overlay: UEA New Writing Live Thursday February 6, 5.45 doors for 6pm start, Dragon Hall, King Street. Guest Reader: Tawseef Khan. Image of Tawseef. Bio:Tawseet Khan is an immigration solicitor. He has a PhD from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British Wring (Prose
asylum system. He has an MA in Creative Writing (Prose) trom the UEA, where he received the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary. His fiction has appeared in Lighthouse and Test Signal: a Northern anthology; his non-fiction in the New York Times, The Face and Hyphen. His debut non-fiction book Muslim, Actually was published by Atlantic in
2021. His debut novel, 'Determination' was published on 15 June

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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Still a couple of spots left on my Poetry of Loss Zoom poetry workshop on 22nd February. DM me or comment below for details.

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Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Set your alarms! The submission portal will reopen in just a few hours! From 00:00 to 23:59 BST Wednesday 5 Feb you'll get a second chance to submit an entry to the 2025 Bristol Short Story Prize. Get those stories ready! Enter here: bit.ly/3ZjmdN8

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Entry Form – Bristol Short Story Prize

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Tawseef Khan @tawseefkhan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Yes!!! Very excited to be in my beloved Norwich again! Do come along if you can 💚💚💚

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

VERY EXCITED to have the brilliant @tawseefkhan.bsky.social as our special guest, reading and interviewing alongside current students of creative writing at UEA! Thursday February 6 at Bar Marzano. Free entry. Don't miss it! @newwritingnet.bsky.social

Purple background with image of retro mic. Image of Tawseef Khan inset. Text: UEA New Writing Live, Thursday February 6, 6pm Bar Marzano, The Forum. Guest Reader: Tawseef Khan.Tawseef Khan is an immigration solicitor. He has a PhD from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British asylum system. He has an MA in Creative Writing (Prose) from the UEA, where he received the Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary. His fiction has appeared in Lighthouse and Test Signal: a Northern anthology; his non-fiction in the New York Times, The Face and Hyphen. His debut non-fiction book Muslim, Actually was published by Atlantic in 2021. His debut novel, ‘Determination’ was published on 13 June 2024.

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Our events list for 2025 (so far!) Reading, interview and Q&A with our special guests. With open mic readings from current UEA creative writing students. Free entry!

Purple gradient background with purple shaded vintage mic. Text overlay: New Writing Live. UEA University of East Anglia. February 6 Tawseef Khan, March 20 Alice Franklin, May 1 Hanna Thomas Uose. 6pm Bar Marzano, The Forum.

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Play with the truth – stretch it, warp it, bend it to your will. Turn it absurd, grotesque, glorious, maximized. Turn it to fiction. Turn it to fantasy. Turn it to an even deeper truth." brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/t...

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Norwich friends! You’ll be able to find us all day tomorrow at @writerscentre.bsky.social’s Christmas publishing fair, along with many other fine presses! Come along and say hi, or pick up a copy of our latest issue or fill in the gaps in your collection with a back issue!

Editor Andrew Kenrick behind the Hinterland stall at last year’s Christmas publishing fair

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello new followers - we are Hinterland, a tri-annual nonfiction magazine based here in lovely Norwich but publishing authors from all around the world! Links to webstore, submission guidelines and our shiny new substack all in our bio :-)

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Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This Thursday it's UEA New Writing Live! Entirely run by students, without funding. As a team, we believe that reading your work for an audience is a rite of passage for a writer. For most of our student readers, this is their first ever opportunity. With special guest, alumnus Robert Ashton.

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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Carrie Etter gave a superb reading at New writing Live last night and she was a dream to interview! Still on a high this morning.

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UEA New Writing Live @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We’re delighted to be welcoming Robert Ashton as our special guest reader for New Writing Live on November 28! Reading from and discussing his Wainwright Prize long listed book, Where Are The Fellows Who Cut The Hay ⭐️

Image purple background, vintage mic. Inset image Robert Ashton and bio. Text overlay: UEA New Writing Live, Thursday November 28, 6pm Bar Marzano, The Forum Guest reader: Robert Ashton Bio: Robert Ashton made the leap from an HND Agriculture
In
1978, to an
MA
in
Biography and
Creative Non-Fiction at the UEA in 2020, which he passed with distinction.
Robert's book, Where are the Fellows who Cut the Hay: How Traditions from the Past Can Shape Our Future was LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2024.
Robert is currently working on his next book which explores our evolving relationship with soil. He lives near the Suffolk coast and is founder of the Leiston Book Festival, which focuses on books that explore our changing landscape and environment.
www.robertashton.co.uk

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