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'On Writing for Young People' Conference, 24-25 Oct, Online. KEYNOTE by writer, lecturer and philosopher Darren Chetty on ways in which children's writers can position their work in relation to 'classic' stories. Info: tinyurl.com/6rf32t7c #OnWriting2024
It's *today*! ✨We are very excited to co-host Claire Jeantils' seminar 'Reading Chronicity, Translating Temporalities' this afternoon with School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University and FASS Health Hub- all welcome! 📢09.10.2024, 4-5pm, County Main SR1 @ LU wp.lancs.ac.uk/transculturalw… English Literature and Creative Writing
1 WEEK TO GO until our Autumn weekend! Have you booked your tickets? Attend in-person £5, watch online £3 (prices differ for Joe Boyd's event). Book now: geni.us/LF24A Ft Jacqueline Harris, Katherine Woodfine (updates), Polly Atkin, Camille Ralphs Ian Seed Inés G. Labarta & more!
This is what Weaving History was all about: connecting people to forgotten histories and inspiring new kinds of creativity 💪 I'll be at Rochdale Town Hall on 27th October for a FREE poetry workshop with the amazing Jayran Lear. 🎟️Tickets here 🎟️ bit.ly/powerfulpoetry…
Clare Egan (English Literature and Creative Writing) and Jonathan Healey in Lancaster Library at Lancaster Litfest’s Autumn Weekend. Jonathan Healey asks what if parliamentarians like Thomas Rainsborough or John Lambert rather than Cromwell had emerged as leaders? Would there have been a civil war? pic.x.com/mSc0eRdPTf
Polly Atkin and @ZoeFLambert at Lancaster Litfest’s Autumn Weekend in a packed Lancaster Library. Polly reads from her magical new book Company of Owls (Elliott & Thompson) about the owls that surround her Lake District home in Grasmere.
Tonight (21/10/24 at 6.30pm) you can hear Guadalupe Nettel talk about her extraordinary novel Still Born (@Fitzcarraldo) with her translator Rosalind Harvey at the Lancaster Litfest International Fiction Book Club. Tickets: £3 bit.ly/4eobTcK
Special issue of Journal for Cultural Research on "Perversion and Power" that I co-edited with Arthur Bradley English Literature and Creative Writing is out. Featuring: Bradley, Bunta, Bielik-Robson, Johnston, Sasa Babic and myself. All articles (except one) are open access: tandfonline.com/toc/rcuv20/cur…
6.30pm, 18 /11 Lancaster Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club will discuss Marguerite Duras' classic 'The Lover' (tr. Barbara Bray, Harper Perennial). First published 1984, it won the Prix Goncourt. 'Duras is at the height of her powers' Edmund White. To join📩 [email protected]
GREAT NEWS! AK Blakemore will be in conversation about 'Gender, Witchcraft, and History' in The Lecture Theatre at The Storey on Monday 18 Nov. at 6pm. Organised by the History Dept at LancasterUniHistory, this is going to be fascinating. Register at: tinyurl.com/2texsn3s.
Incredible keynote lecture by Prof. Mark Knight Lancaster University on reading George MacDonald, precarity, and eschatological hope…!
Very excited about this event on 9th December, organised by our colleagues English Literature and Creative Writing! A screening of the film Bye Bye Tiberias and Q&A with director Lina Soualem.
6.30pm, 16 /12 Lancaster Litfest Int. Fic. Online Book Club discuss Milan Kundera's 1984 classic 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (tr. Michael Henry Heim, Faber Books). 'I return to the book again and again. Teacher, touchstone, style guide' Taiye Selasi. To join📩 [email protected]
