University of East Anglia

Rose Thomson (later RT ) received her BA Honours degree in English (her second degree) from the University of East Anglia , where she had enrolled in 1964.

In the year of her first marriage RT became a full-time writer. In 1988 she became a part-time lecturer on the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia , of which she was...

When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...

After leaving Cambridge AS secured a job lecturing at the University of Strathclyde in 1990, where she remained for two years before being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She ascribes her illness partly to...

She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (having previously been Visiting Fellow...

There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA (the Royal Academy of...

Scholar Elizabeth Maslen notes the complexity of DL 's bibliography: she used many different publishers, and appeared in many different paperback imprints, some of them since swallowed up by different names. Lessing's personal archive...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

In her capacity as writing fellow at East Anglia , MG edited an anthology entitled For Life on Earth, which collects anti-war texts first published in ephemeral locations.

Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at...

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

In 1986 AF was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia , in the School...

Apart from other writing-life activities like reading her poems in London and on tour, BE has a successful career as an academic teacher of creative writing. She has worked in the UK at the University of East Anglia

AE proceeded from Trinity College, Dublin, to the University of East Anglia in England for an MA in Creative Writing.

AC taught part-time in the Writing MA programme at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.