The University of Canberra has established an agreement with the internationally renowned School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Celebrated graduates of East Anglia’s Master of Arts in Creative Writing include Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro and novelist Tracey Chevalier. Teachers in the program have included Angela Carter, Rose Tremain and Andrew Motion, current Poet Laureate of Great Britain.
Francesca Rendle-Short, Convenor of the MA in Creative Writing program at the University of Canberra, was in Norwich in November 2006 as part of her three-month European stay as artist-in-residence in Switzerland. She was instrumental in finalising the agreement which will pave the way for exchange students between the two writing programs.
East Anglia’s School of Literature and Creative Writing focuses on modern and post-modern literature and creative writing. It has research and teaching interests in American literature, women’s writing, cultural studies, film theory, drama history and drama production.
Its Masters of Arts in Creative Writing was set up in 1970 by British author and academic, Malcolm Bradbury, and Angus Wilson, author and essayist.