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Evidence of the harm from #airpollution grows stronger by the day. Join me on Friday at Literary Leicester to find out why this problem has persisted for so long and to think together about a low #AirPollution city of the future.

📚The Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! Five fantastic novels showcasing the power of fiction to shape how we see & respond to the climate crisis - exploring resilience, justice & life in a changing world. Winner announced 14th May! 🌍✨ More: climatefictionprize.co.uk

Such an inspiring talk by @[email protected] tonight at Literary Leicester

Paul Muldoon at Literary Leicester

Lydia Towsey and Calvin Jephcote open 'The Air We Breathe' with a spoken word performance animating visualisations of air pollution in Leicester, followed by a talk by Gary Fuller #LitLeics25

Writing about the current glut of Hamlet deconstructions, I think I'll go back to this. youtu.be/YNcN5f3vwro

Monday = PhD commentary = following breadcrumbs of interest

“Maybe this protagonist’s trajectory is a journey from relative isolation, to a context in which he is actively a part of the world. A small world, maybe. But it is important to him.” Bryan Washington discusses his story in this week’s issue. nyer.cm/zStLXwa

Stayed up to watch Fright (1971) 😱 should have gone to bed

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite | 24.4.25

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant Sophie Haydock and her new novel "Madame Matisse." Read an excerpt from it here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/04/sophie… Sophie will be giving a guest talk University of Leicester on 30 April - details on the site! Jonathan Taylor Literary Leicester

New review on Everybody's Reviewing by Lee Wright of "On Writers and Writing" by Henry James everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/04/review… NYRB Classics Creative Writing at Leicester Jonathan Taylor

Philip Larkin’s heartfelt but unpublished poem on the plight of the librarian. And just to say I’m now on Bluesky at robertharrishome

"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing." Joan Didion

Who really cares for the countryside Guy Shrubsole #must read

A corner of England

"We shelter inside movies, at the movies. Cinema architecture as a Cold War topography: bunker, safe space, crypt." Ian Penman, 2023

"The plush / red flesh the fat / sac of seeds" Katha Pollitt.

"Walking down the street at times eclipsed by trees" Cole Swensen (2004)

Eimear McBride at the University of Leicester Literary Leicester Creative Writing at Leicester