page_title: UEA Creative Writing Course
section_title: Costa Book Award winners
hierarchical_section_title: UEA Creative Writing Course / Notable alumni / Costa Book Award winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Author Adam Foulds
context_page_description: The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970. The M.A. is widely regarded as the most prestigious and successful in the country and competition for places is notoriously tough.
  The course is split into four strands: Prose, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry and Scriptwriting. All four result in an M.A. qualification upon successful completion of the course. The Course Directors are currently Andrew Cowan, Kathryn Hughes, Lavinia Greenlaw and Val Taylor respectively. Course tutors include Amit Chaudhuri, Trezza Azzopardi, Giles Foden, Tobias Jones, James Lasdun, Jean McNeil, Margaret Atwood and George Szirtes.
  Writers such as Angela Carter, Rose Tremain, Andrew Motion, W. G. Sebald, Michèle Roberts and Patricia Duncker have also taught on the course.
  Writers-in-residence have included Alan Burns and Margaret Atwood.
context_section_description: Tash Aw (MA, 2003), Whitbread Book Award–winning novelist
  Susan Fletcher (MA, 2002), Whitbread Book Award–winning novelist
  Adam Foulds (MA, 2001), Costa Book Award–winning poet
  Emma Healey (MA, 2011), Costa Book Award–winning poet
  Andrew Miller (MA, 1991), Costa Book Award–winning novelist
  Christie Watson (MA, 2009), Costa Book Award–winning novelist
caption: Costa Book Award winner Adam Foulds
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