Congratulations UEA Archives Doris Lessing @nonia_williams Matthew Taunton 👏👏👏

Our monthly update features the invaluable contribution of our #Unboxed volunteer students and their creative responses to Doris Lessing exhibition. So inspired they went on to create an exhibition all of their own. On display UEA in 2020 bit.ly/2PvLzER

Join us for a FREE INSET day of workshops inspired by the Dorris Lessing 100 exhibition. Work creatively in activities led by artist Ian Brownlie and writer Justine Ashford. An opportunity for collaboration between English and Art subject specialists. 10 January 10am-3.30pm.

This letter and many more available to view as part of our exhibition Sainsbury Centre

Delighted to be selected as a finalist for this award and thanks to our partners Sainsbury Centre The Doris Lessing Society & Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library for an excellent collaboration. If you haven’t encountered the exhibition - do head along before it closes 9/2.

Fantastic! Yes it is being shown just before the film itself. With an intro from Literature@UEA & recollections from some of those who witnessed auditions for extras Norwich Arts Centre. Hope you can make it!

On 10/1 we welcomed local art teachers to the Doris Lessing exhibition to consider the curatorial process in relation to a writer's life. It stimulated ideas for lesson plans & further links between the archive + schools. Part of an INSET day Sainsbury Centre

Do you recognise yourself on the Norwich set of this 1980s science fiction film which starred an Oscar-winning actress? Doris Lessing & @scvaeducation screening of ‘Memoirs of a Survivor’ takes place Tue 21/1 Cinema City More: edp24.co.uk/news/can-you-s…

Our exhibition Sainsbury Centre - a finalist in an award that recognises Outstanding Social & Cultural Impact - ends on Sunday 9/2. Catch it while you can. The incredible life & times of the only British woman to win the The Nobel Prize for literature. MORE: sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/doris…

The third finalists in the Outstanding Social or Cultural Impact Category are: Matthew Taunton, @nonia_williams and Justine Mann.

ICYMI-This means the last day of our #DorisLessing100 exhibition is tomorrow-Sat 8 Feb. Thanks to all who helped to create such a wonderful centenary celebration of an extraordinary life. Sainsbury Centre Patrick French Paul Cooper @nonia_williams Matthew Taunton CHASE DTP

Happy 101st birthday to #DorisLessing. We hold an incredible archive of her personal correspondence, working papers and diaries UEA Archives & look forward to another 101 years of Lessing readership & scholarship.

In this essay, I discuss Doris Lessing's 1950 novel 'The Grass is Singing' from the perspective of a Colombian immigrant. This was a talk I gave at Doris Lessing in 2019. I welcome your comments. emmalouisejay.com/emmalouisejay/…

A podcast on #DorisLessing’s #TheGoldenNotebook from three of our speakers Doris Lessing Literature@UEA and UEA Archives

Publication: #MatthewTaunton Literature@UEA's article 'Communism by the Letter: Doris Lessing & the Politics of Writing' is published in 88.1 of ELH Journal & draws on the vast collection of her letters in the #DorisLessingArchive UEA Archives Visit: muse.jhu.edu/article/784356

Interesting reflection by Rushdie on Midnight's Children forty years on; and nice to see he's a fan of Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch ! theguardian.com/books/2021/apr…

Delighted to announce a special Doris Lessing issue of the journal Critical Quarterly (Wiley) edited by DL100 Co-Curators #MatthewTaunton & @nonia_williams Literature@UEA & featuring articles drawing on our Lessing archive is available now on open access. More: dorislessing100.org/publication

A huge loss. We so enjoyed working with him over the years and will miss his energy and enthusiasm for Lessing's archive and body of work.