Publisher's Synopsis
This new fiction anthology showcases 37 talented new writers from the Prose, Scriptwriting and Life Writing courses of the world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA. The collection's exciting mix of new writing spans the world and the ages: from the myths of ancient China to modern-day Bolton, and on to London at the dawn of the next ice age. Elsewhere we're taken from North American trailer parks and nineteenth-century artists' ateliers to the living room of a middle-aged couple leafing through television listings.The authors showcased include Louise Doughty, Andrew Cowan, Kathryn Hughes, Richard Holmes, Val Taylor, and many more."In years to come, when some of these writers are household names, this book will allow you to say, with total superiority: 'I preferred their early stuff.'" Joe Dunthorne"I was astonished at the range and facility of the students I met on the Life Writing programme at UEA. It seemed to me that every kind of life was being re-imagined on that East Anglian plain." Philip Hoare.
