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 | Pretext 11: This Little World by Various contributors Pretext 11: This Little World features exclusive new writing that examines how the world talks via literature. It stars both leading and upcoming writers. £7.00 |  | Pretext 10: On The Market by Various Pretext 10: On The Market features exclusive new writing that explores the relationship between business and creativity. How can budding artists’ talent be hatched, nurtured and safely launched onto the market? £7.00 |
 | Reactions 5: New Poetry by Various. Edited by Clare Pollard. Reactions 5 is the latest volume of contemporary poetry from Pen & Inc Press. The new editor, poet Clare Pollard, has selected or commissioned ... £7.99 |  | UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2006: Tessellate by Various contributors Tessellate is the fantastic new anthology from the University of East Anglia's renowned Creative Writing M A course. It showcases the fresh talent of the Class of 2006 across the genres of prose, scriptwriting, poetry and life-writing. £6.99 |
 | Writers in Conversation: Volume 2 by Bigsby, Christopher Exclusive interviews with a wide range of literary greats. Discover what drives today’s top authors in these candid and revealing insights into... £10.99 | ||
All of our recent and older stock is still available, including 2006's Writing Worlds 1: The Norwich Exchanges, which emanates from The New Writing Partnership's annual New Writing Worlds Symposium in Norwich; successful novelists, poets and non-fiction writers from all over the world engage in exciting debates and talks about different aspects of writing. Not only is the University of East Anglia a stakeholder in The New Writing Partnership, but it also looks forward to the next phase in the development of its publishing and literary projects in partnership with other companies in the region.
Pretexts 1-11 are full of great stories, poetry and essays that are definitely worth catching. In Pretext 1: Salvage, there's an essay on Angus Wilson. In Pretext 2: Experience you can catch an exclusive interview withMartin Amis. Pretext 5: Blow Up Your TV was co-edited by Ali Smith and includes fiction by Kate Atkinson, Nell Dunn and Stella Duffy and poetry
from Margaret Atwood. Pretext 6: Punk of Me has a fabulous debate between Philip Hensher and D J Taylor about experimental writing. Pretext 7: Cut That Fence (co-edited by Aleksandar Hemon) has fiction by Michèle Roberts and Rachel Seiffert. Pretext 8: Once Upon A Time has a murderous tale by Patricia Duncker, an exclusive interview with Wole Soyinka, and a debate on
race, writing & community between Helon Habila and Courttia Newland. The exclusive interview with J G Ballard is worth a read in Pretext 9: Not Of An Age. Pretext 10: On The Market features Blake Morrison and Susie Orbach discussing the psychology and ethics of memoir writing and, in Pretext 11: This Little World, there's Michael Holroyd on sibling rivalry and new poetry from Seamus Heaney. You can buy back issues at discounted rates; older issues are £5.00 and more recent ones are £7.00.
Pen & Inc's back catalogue also has five volumes of Reactions: New Poetry, from which many of the upcoming poets have gone on to achieve great things. Theatre Theories: From Plato to Virtual Reality is a must-have for anyone studying theatre in any capacity, and don't forget the two volumes of Writers in Conversation, which contain fantastic interviews with many of the world's leading authors including Don Delillo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, John Updike, W G Sebald and Arnold Wesker.
You can read more general information about some of these publications below:
PRETEXT
Pen & Inc Press publishes ‘Pretext’, an international literary magazine that features the best and most exciting new fiction, poetry and essays from around the world. Published twice a year, ‘Pretext’ incorporates new writing from both established and upcoming authors, for example: Margaret Atwood, Nell Dunn, Kate Atkinson, Patricia Duncker, Alison Fell, Toby Litt, Martin Amis, Lawrence Norfolk, Philip Hensher, Michèle Roberts, Rachel Seiffert, Claire Messud, Patricia Duncker, Christopher Hope, Francis Wyndham, Helon Habila, J G Ballard, Jim Crace, Paul Bailey, Blake Morrison, William Luvaas, Gregory Norminton, Michael Holroyd, Seamus Heaney and Iain Sinclair.
REACTIONS
Pen & Inc Press publishes ‘Reactions’, an annual anthology of contemporary poetry in which the poets featured are on the verge of having their first collections published. It’s about new voices talking and arguing, language sparking into life as different traditions rub each other up the wrong (and right) ways. ‘Reactions’ presents the future voices of poetry in an eclectic mix from around the world.
MA ANTHOLOGY
Pen & Inc Press publishes exclusive work from graduates of the most prestigious Creative Writing MA course in Europe – that of the University of East Anglia. The annual anthology of students’ work is a diverse collection showcasing fresh new talent from the literary stars of the future. Previous graduates include Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Trezza Azzopardi, Tash Aw, Susan Fletcher, Douglas Cowie, Diana Evans, Esther Morgan, Naomi Alderman, Jane Harris and Owen Sheers.
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University of East Anglia
Norwich
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United Kingdom