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Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel
This year, Fiona Doloughan, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature, published her third monograph, Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel (Anthem Press). She’s about to embark on a US lecture tour, so we caught up … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, English Literature, News, Public engagement, Research
Tagged Anthem Press, autofiction, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel, B. S. Johnson, Caroline Levine, Contemporary Narrative: textual production, David Shields, English as a Literature in Translation, Fils, Fiona Doloughan, hyper-realism, Jeanette Winterson, John Ruskin, Karl Ove Knausgaard, multimodality and multiliteracies, My Struggle, Philip Tew, psychological realism, Rachel Cusk, Radical Realism, reality hunger, rise of auto/biography and memoir, Serge Doubrovsky, social realism, Xiaolu Guo
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The OU Near You: summer festival edition
In this bonus summer post, Jennifer Shepherd, Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences team in Ireland, shares a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Open University’s partnership with the John Hewitt Society’s annual Summer School. What does summertime mean … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, English Literature, News
Tagged Armagh, Belfast Book Festival, Denise Mina, Dublin/Belfast Culture Nights, English Lit MA, English Literature MA, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Frank McGuiness, Heather Richardson, Ireland, Jack Warnock, Jennifer Shepherd, John Hewitt, John Hewitt Society, John Hewitt Society Summer School, Marketplace Theatre, Nessa O'Mahony, Nigel Swann, Northern Ireland, Open University, Open University in Ireland, Siobhan Campbell, Yellow Star houses of Budapest
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Judging Milton Keynes LitFest’s Poetry Competition
In recent months, several members of our Creative Writing team have been collaborating with our local bookish friends at Milton Keynes Literary Festival. On Saturday 15th April, lecturer Lania Knight interviewed fellow novelist and life writer Kit de Waal about … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, News, Public engagement, Research
Tagged Bridport Prize, Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester, creative writing, Daffodils, ekphrasis, Exit Strategy: Ekphrasis through the lens of the abstract and the formless, Eyewear, Full Sight of Her, Jane Yeh, John Pollard Prize, Kit de Waal, Lania Knight, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, MinK2023, MKLitFest, Night Mail, Norman Nicholson, PhD in creative writing, Siobhan Campbell, Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Windscale
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Writing in Lockdown
Jo Barnden, AL on A215 and A363 For those first, intense weeks of lockdown, I seemed to be out of step with the rest of the world. Everyone was telling Twitter how much time they had to walk through nature … Continue reading
Posted in News, Reflections
Tagged agents, creative writing, historical fiction, lockdown, novels, publishing
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