Tag Archives: Contemporary Cultures of Writing

Cursed art, ekphrastic poetry and Prague

Posted on 5th April 2023 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Staff Tutor and Associate Lecturer, Jennie Owen, travelled to Prague to present at a conference on the theme of Global Horror. The conference was run by Progressive Connexions, an organisation that supports sustainable global interdisciplinary research, and promotes collegiate exchange … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged A363, Contemporary Cultures of Writing, Darkness at the Edges, ekphrastic poetry, Forward Prize, Giovanni Bragolin, Global Horror, God Disposes, Jennie Owen, John Keats, Keisuke Aiso, Man Proposes, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nine Pens Press, Ode on a Grecian Urn, On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Progressive Connexions, Pushcart Prize, Sir Edwin Landseer, The Crying Boy, The Poetry Foundation, Writing place: what haunts the landscape of modern Britain? | Leave a comment

From academic to creative writing

Posted on 24th October 2022 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Dean de la Motte’s name will be familiar to anyone who attended our February 2019 Contemporary Cultures of Writing event, ‘The lives of others: research and writing’. The panel’s chair, OU Senior Lecturer Fiona Doloughan, suggested that both Dean and … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing | Tagged Anne Brontë, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel, Branwell Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Contemporary Cultures of Writing, Dean de la Motte, Emily Brontë, Fiona Doloughan, Fiona Sampson, first-person diary, Juliet Barker, Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë, Radical Realism, the Brontës, The lives of others: research and writing, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Northern Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Poitiers, University of Reading, Valley Press, Villette, Writing the Nineteenth Century | Leave a comment

Climate Change and Creativity: Interview with Sally O’Reilly

Posted on 13th October 2021 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Sally O’Reilly is a novelist and Senior Lecturer here at the Open University’s Department of English and Creative Writing, where her role as Media Lead has included editing this blog. Before Sally’s appointment as a Central Academic in 2014, she’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Research | Tagged Alan Garner, Charles Foster, Climate Change and Creativity, Climate Crisis, Collective Action, Contemporary Cultures of Writing, Dark Aemilia, Department of English and Creative Writing, Eco Worrier, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, How to be a Writer, Jenny Offill, Kristian Evans, Open University, Sally O’Reilly, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Societal Challenges, Ted Hughes, The Best Possible Taste, William Blake, Writing the Climate, You Spin Me Round | 2 Comments

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