UEA Live: Autumn 20241) Emma Flint: The Noirwich LectureDescriptionWednesday 11th September | 6pm, UEA Drama Studio The 2024 Noirwich Lecture, presented by Emma Flint, will deliver powerful and pertinent views on the ever dynamic crime writing genre. Emma Flint was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature, and later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. She lives and works in a cottage in the Cotswolds. Since childhood, she has been drawn to true-crime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases from the early 20th century. Her first novel, Little Deaths, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, for the Desmond Elliott Prize, for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award, and for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. Other Women was selected as a Zoe Ball BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. The lecture will end at 7pm, and be followed by a book signing. Your ticket will also allow entry to the UEA MA Crime Writing Anthology 2024 launch (7.30 – 8.30pm) and drinks reception after Emma Flint's lecture. 2) Rebecca F. KuangDescriptionWednesday 16th October | 6.30pm, Lecture Theatre 1, UEA We are thrilled to be welcoming Rebecca F. Kuang to UEA this autumn. Kuang will be discussing her global sensation, Yellowface. The event will be followed by a book signing. Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Yellowface, Babel: An Arcane History and The Poppy War trilogy. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature. Her next novel, Katabasis, will be published in 2025. 3) Julia ArmfieldDescriptionTuesday 12th November | 6.30pm, UEA Drama Studio Julia Armfield, bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world: Past Rites. Julia Armfield's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of Salt Slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, won the Polari Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022. She lives and works in London. |