Looking forward to discussing the longlist for the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions next week with my fellow judges.

I’m tutoring an Arvon creative nature writing week this July with the brilliant Dr Miriam Darlington🦉. Really looking forward to it. Some places still available here: arvon.org/writing-course…

Once upon a time, in another century, I sat in a Norwich pub & talked about Améry & Arendt with Max Sebald. We were both, as usual, smoking.

I taught at UEA for nearly 25 years, so I'm thrilled to be returning to talk about 'We are Free.' There will no smoking, but lots of fun!

Thanks for the beautiful cover Barbican Press as well as everything else!

So proud to have been part of this project. We have produced a book without precedent anywhere as far as we know - 3 communities writing about nature and landscape in 3 languages. And a phenomenal film from our colleagues at INRAE Santé des Plantes et Environnement Toulouse. Literature@UEA UEA Research 📚🎦

Attention Norwich fans! We’re hosting a launch event for our climate writing special next week, complete with readings, chat and wine - it’s free but you do need to register for a ticket here: eventbrite.com/e/launch-event…

UEA's low-res Creative Writing MA in Crime Fiction is open to applications for Sept 24. Receive two years of developmental editing from internationally published authors & world-leading crime fiction scholars. Almost 2 dozen published graduates since 2017! uea.ac.uk/course/postgra…

Come work with us! Opening for a Lecturer in the Arts of Africa (Fixed term for 12 months) at UEA SRU Centre for African Art & Archaeology, UEA. 8 April deadline. g.co/kgs/XBE9J43

The Shackleton Medal 2024

We are looking for a 3rd individual to claim our £10,000 prize. The medal will go to the individual judged to have done the most to protect the polar extremes so valued by Sir Ernest Shackleton himself.

Make your nomination: bit.ly/49DuajF

More Shackleton polar medal news. See the first winner of the Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, incredible and inspiring Dr. Heïdi Sevestre in Nat Geo documentary #ArcticAscent .  We're proud to see her continue her amazing work! youtube.com/watch?v=esfM1w…

I'm very pleased to be part of the judges' panel for the third Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, which comes with prize money of £10K. The deadline for nominations is April 5.
shackleton.com/pages/shacklet… youtube.com/watch?v=Xt-eh3…

I’m a judge on the novel & short story strands of The London Library’s Emerging Writer Programme this year, and there’s just one week left to apply. It’s a great opportunity with NO upper age limit (ie it takes real life into account) londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-em…

Simply stunning!

Are you from and/or writing fiction about Southeast Asia? Apply for the David TK Wong Fellowship Literature@UEA; a 9 month-long fellowship at UEA with mentoring, £26,000 stipend and time to write. Deadline in one week. Applications close28 February.
uea.ac.uk/about/school-o…

I'm very pleased that we're launching the third Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, which comes with prize money of £10K. The deadline for nominations is April 5.
shackleton.com/pages/shacklet… youtube.com/watch?v=Xt-eh3…

The first winner of the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, played a prominent role in this remarkable Nat Geo documentary #ArcticAscent .  We're proud to see her continue the inspirational work that won her the award. youtube.com/watch?v=esfM1w…

Event klaxon: come and talk to me Queen Mary University of London about Radical Attention, our popcorn brains, AI and life inside the machine. Free. April 9th. eventbrite.co.uk/e/show-and-tel…

We won an award! Literature@UEA's Int'l Chair of Creative Writing Africa won the UEA Innovation and Impact Awards for most significant social and cultural impact. Thanks our donor and partners: Gaborone Book Festival Atuki Turner Rémy Ngamije, Doek , Zukiswa Wanner & Elias Mutani, ZTAT. 🙏 Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Congratulations to the winners: Jean McNeil Literature@UEA and Tsitsi
Dangarembga for the International Chair of Creative Writing Africa Year (2021-22)

#UEAIIAwards

Here’s a reminder that Lolwe is accepting submissions for Issue 9 throughout the month of February (1-29 February 2024). The issue will be guest-edited by Ya Mallen Jagne (The Gambia), Karen Nadu Ologoudou (Benin), and Tamanda Kanjaye (Malawi).
lolwe.org/submit/