Aberystwyth students signed up by major UK publishers
Two postgraduate students in the Department of English and Creative Writing have been signed by major UK publishers. Current PhD Creative Writing student Eliza Granville’s novel, Gretel and the Dark, will be published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin, on 6th February 2014 and is a literary novel which takes its inspirations from Grimm’s fairytales. Kate Hamer, who has just completed an MA in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth, has been signed to Faber in a two book deal. Kate’s first novel, The Girl in the Red Coat, will be published in spring 2015. Kate’s book began life as a piece of coursework for her MA Creative Writing, which provides intensive, practical training in the craft of writing, and the publishing industry. The novel tells the story of Carmel, a young girl, and her mother. When Carmel goes missing one day at a festival, both mother and daughter embark on their own individual terrifying journeys, in a mystery with undertones of a fairy tale. Kate, who grew up in P...