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What's it like to study English literature @LancasterUni ? Our students, Catryn Thomas and Chiana Dickson share their views #studyEnglish #studyEnglishLiterature youtu.be/yFShLOlYng0
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6.30pm, 16 /12 @Litfest Int. Fic. Online Book Club discuss Milan Kundera's 1984 classic 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (tr. Michael Henry Heim, @FaberBooks). 'I return to the book again and again. Teacher, touchstone, style guide' @taiyeselasi. To join📩 bill@litfest.org
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Very excited about this event on 9th December, organised by our colleagues @lancaster_words! A screening of the film Bye Bye Tiberias and Q&A with director Lina Soualem.
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Beyond delighted that my manuscript Wooden Dolls won the @PageTurnerAward for Best Contemporary Fiction. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way, especially @sarahcorbett70, MA friends and beta readers!
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Explore The CounterText Interview with our very own Professor John Schad as he delves into the intersections of literature, theology, and spectrality!
A compelling journey through post-criticism and the transformative power of misreading. Read here: euppublishing.com/doi/10.336…
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The launch of the 3rd issue of Errant is just round the corner!! 🥳🎊
On the 23rd of November we will be at the iconic Lancaster Castle for a very special afternoon of post-critical erring.
Register for free here: shorturl.at/4QdqF
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Incredible keynote lecture by Prof. Mark Knight @LancasterUni on reading George MacDonald, precarity, and eschatological hope…!
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🎉 Support a weekend of FREE fun for Children at Litfest 2025! 🎉
Help us to fund a full weekend of outstanding fun events and activities to delight and inspire children across the region!
Please donate to our Crowdfunder and help spread the word! 👉geni.us/LLCF25
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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 @LancasterHistor, this is going to be fascinating. Register at: tinyurl.com/2texsn3s.
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6.30pm, 18 /11 @Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club will discuss Marguerite Duras' classic 'The Lover' (tr. Barbara Bray, @HarperPerennial). First published 1984, it won the Prix Goncourt. 'Duras is at the height of her powers' Edmund White. To join📩 bill@litfest.org
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Special issue of Journal for Cultural Research on "Perversion and Power" that I co-edited with Arthur Bradley @lancaster_words is out. Featuring: Bradley, Bunta, Bielik-Robson, Johnston, @miselnarajza and myself. All articles (except one) are open access: tandfonline.com/toc/rcuv20/c…
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Tonight (21/10/24 at 6.30pm) you can hear Guadalupe Nettel talk about her extraordinary novel Still Born (@Fitzcarraldo) with her translator @Rosenkrantz at the @Litfest International Fiction Book Club. Tickets: £3 bit.ly/4eobTcK
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@pollyrowena and @ZoeFLambert at @Litfest’s Autumn Weekend in a packed Lancaster Library. Polly reads from her magical new book Company of Owls (@eandtbooks) about the owls that surround her Lake District home in Grasmere.
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Clare Egan (@lancaster_words) and Jonathan Healey in Lancaster Library at @Litfest’s Autumn Weekend. @SocialHistoryOx asks what if parliamentarians like Thomas Rainsborough or John Lambert rather than Cromwell had emerged as leaders? Would there have been a civil war? x.com/SwainsonBill/status/18…
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The 'On Writing for Young People' Conference 2024 is just a week away. The papers are all pre-recorded and are ready to view. Ticket-holders, see your tickets, or the Eventbrite event page, for details on how to access the talks before the Q&As start on 24th! #OnWriting2024
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This is what Weaving History was all about: connecting people to forgotten histories and inspiring new kinds of creativity 💪
I'll be at @RochdaleTH on 27th October for a FREE poetry workshop with the amazing Jayran Lear.
🎟️Tickets here 🎟️
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ALT Powerful Poetry Panel join our panel to discover the power of writers and local communities to stand up against injustice and give voices to those who need it most. Centering around Rochdale's historical involvement with fighting for abolition in the 1860s during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, historians will uncover the people and their poetry behind the town's radical history. Sunday 27th October Rochdale Town Hall 3- 4pm Free workshop Booking is essential
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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 @Storywheel, @followtheyellow, @pollyrowena, @CamilleRalphs_ @Shadow2train @InesGLabarta & more!
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It's *today*! ✨We are very excited to co-host Claire Jeantils' seminar 'Reading Chronicity, Translating Temporalities' this afternoon with @globalaffairslu and @FASSHealthHub- all welcome!
📢09.10.2024, 4-5pm, County Main SR1 @ LU
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Leaf Journal's conference returns 24-25 Oct to share ideas & insights in the academic field of creative writing for children/YA. Featuring creative workshops, a wide range of panellists, keynote by Darren Chetty, & it's 100% online! #OnWriting2024Tickets📷tinyurl.com/mssn57b8
ALT Text Reads: 'On Writing for Young People' Ideas & insights from the academy and beyond on creative writing for children and young adults. Online Conference 24-25 Oct 2024.
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'On Writing for Young People' Conference, 24-25 Oct, Online. KEYNOTE by writer, lecturer and philosopher @rapclassroom on ways in which children's writers can position their work in relation to 'classic' stories. Info: tinyurl.com/6rf32t7c #OnWriting2024
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There's just under a week left to enter our Poetry Pamphlet Competition in partnership with Wayleave Press! Learn more: geni.us/LF24APC
And book to attend the shortlist reading MC'd by @lancaster_words' @eoghanwalls at 2pm on 18/10 here: geni.us/LF24A
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