Posted By: Richard White, 11 January 2012
The UEA kicks-off its Spring Literary Festival and, as usual, it features a fantastic line-up of writers, starting with poet John Burnside (see below). They also have two Fellowships for writers of fictional or non-fictional prose. Closing dates are fast approaching so for all those interested, get cracking!
Don’t miss the start of the Spring Literary Festival Poet John Burnside will be appearing at UEA to mark the start of the festival. He will be reading from his latest collection
Black Cat Bone, for which he won the Forward Poetry Prize 2011. Tuesday 17 January, Lecture Theatre 1, 7pm.
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David Wong Writing Fellowship
The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The Fellowship is for nine months, starting on 1 October.
Closing date for applications: Monday 16 January 2012. Application information: www.uea.ac.uk/lit/fellowships
Charles Pick Writing Fellowship
There are two Charles Pick Fellowships: the
Charles Pick Fellowship and the
Charles Pick Fellowship for South Asian writers.
Both Fellowships seek to support the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writers of fictional or non-fictional prose. The Fellowships' dual purpose is to give promising writers the opportunity complete a major work and to develop his/her talents. Both Charles Pick Fellowships are for six months, starting on 1 October. The award is £10,000 and includes accommodation on campus at the University of East Anglia.
Closing date for applications: 31 January 2012.
Application information: www.uea.ac.uk/lit/fellowships 