Forthcoming Readings & Seminars
News & Events Menu
Search using keywords/tags or full text search.
English and Creative Writing News
View news: By Date | By Centre/Group | By Type
Latest News By Date
Faculty Research Fund Award for Graham Mort
Date: 6 February 2012
Graham Mort has been awarded £1,600 from the Faculty Research Fund to develop a new dimension of his work in Uganda with the Femrite Wom ... Read more»
Former Student Wins the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2011
Date: 1 February 2012
A former Lancaster PhD student has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel, Pure. Andrew Miller, who was a research student in t ... Read more»
J. Hillis Miller: The First Sail
Date: 1 February 2012
We are very much looking forward to welcoming J. Hillis Miller to the Department in May 2012. During his time with us, he will be participating in a ... Read more»
Publishing Success for Distance Learning MA Student
Date: 31 January 2012
Congratulations to Andrew Keir, who completed the MA in Creative Writing by Distance Learning in September 2011, and whose novella, Blood ... Read more»
'Someone Called Derrida': A Staged Reading
Date: 24 January 2012
On Wednesday 4th April 2012, the Oxford Playhouse Drama Studio will host a staged reading of John Schad's novelistic work, Someone Called Derrida: An ... Read more»
Crime Films, 1940-2000: A Free Film Festival
Date: 16 January 2012
The Festival (part of a series of events associated with the Tom Milne Popular Fiction Archive Exhibition) runs from Friday 20th January to Friday 27t ... Read more»
The Tom Milne Popular Fiction Archive: 2012 Exhibition
Date: 13 January 2012
The late Tom Milne was a highly regarded film critic who joined the British Film Institute as an associate editor. His collection was recently donated ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth in The Guardian's 'Weekend' Magazine
Date: 13 January 2012
'Who wants to be locked into a room with 30 people dressed just like them, to be startled by a bell every 35 minutes, to queue for lunch for 40 minu ... Read more»
Paul Farley and the River Dee
Date: 8 January 2012
Professor Paul Farley was the presenter of BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature broadcast on New Year's Day. The programme, 'Dee', followed Paul as he t ... Read more»
Funding Award for the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research
Date: 20 December 2011
The Trans-Scriptions team of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (Lindsey Moore, Kate Horsley, Lee Horsley and Graham Mort) have been ... Read more»
MA Student Wins Princess Alexandra Medal
Date: 20 December 2011
In December 2004 HRH Princess Alexandra retired as Chancellor of Lancaster University after holding the office for 40 years. To mark her long serv ... Read more»
New Book by Graham Mort
Date: 18 November 2011
Professor Graham Mort has just published a new collection of poems, Cusp, with Seren. For more information, and a preview of the book, please follow t ... Read more»
English student achieves the Lancaster Award, 2011-12
Date: 17 November 2011
Congratulations to Annie White, a final year English Literature student who is one of the first cohort of undergraduates to have achieved the Lancaste ... Read more»
Year 2 student selected for playwriting course
Date: 14 November 2011
Beth Cortese, a 2nd Year English, Creative Writing and Practice student, was the youngest of 8 winners of the 'Enter Stage Write' Northwest Playwright ... Read more»
'Cake' - Issue 3 Launch
Date: 8 November 2011
Issue 3 of Cake has just been launched with great success, eliciting praise from a host of well-respected names in poetry. With a guest editorial from ... Read more»
Dr Tony Sharpe visits Bergen University
Date: 4 November 2011
Dr Tony Sharpe has been visiting the University of Bergen, Norway, where he delivered two invited research papers to Masters and Doctoral students and ... Read more»
Postgraduate student shortlisted for screenwriting award
Date: 31 October 2011
We are pleased to announce that Susan Liddy, who is currently working towards her PhD in Creative Writing, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 'S ... Read more»
Former Student Wins Young Entrepreneur Award
Date: 31 October 2011
Nikki Hesford (English and Creative Writing, 2009) has just won the Lancashire Business Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year which was hosted in S ... Read more»
English student wins short story competition
Date: 26 October 2011
Layla Hendow, a second year English Literature student, has won £2,500 in the 2011 International Short Story competition held by the Internationa ... Read more»
J. Hillis Miller
Date: 13 October 2011
The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Department of English Language and Linguistics are delighted to announce that J.Hillis Miller i ... Read more»
Event Series
Forthcoming Conference
Conference Highlights
Reading Groups
Student Magazines
| Research | Staff | News & Events | Contact Us | Resources for Current Students |
County College, Lancaster University,
LA1 4YD, UK | Tel:+44 (0)1524 592129 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 594247 Email