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Kidnapped by Agatha Christie and OpenLearn
In readiness for the BBC’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel Murder is Easy, which will air this festive season, senior lecturer Anthony Howell lets us in on how the Queen of Crime has added a touch of mystery to new … Continue reading
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Tagged A893, Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, Alex Tickell, Alison Light, Anthony Howell, Captivating Criminality, escapism, European Crime fiction, free learning, Golden Age of Detective Fiction, Hercule Poirot, International Crime Fiction Association, Kenneth Branagh, Literature and the Popular, literature of convalescence, MA in English Literature, middlebrow, Murder is Easy, Open University, OpenLearn, popular fiction
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A Fine Balance: writing, teaching, public engagement
When the world opened again after lockdown, my steadfast companion was the view out my home office window of a fell in Cumbria. Fell ponies often arranged themselves along the ridge of the commons above grazing sheep, backlit by low … Continue reading
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Tagged A363, A363: Advanced Creative Writing, Common People, creative writing, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emma Claire Sweeney, fourth genre, Kit de Waal, Lania Knight, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, MKLitFest, My Name Is Leon, Open University, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Signal 8 Press, sublime, There is Fire Here, William Wordsworth, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, Zoe Lambert
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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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From creative practice PhD to academic book publication: a eureka moment!
The previous post in our series on the PhD journey and beyond explored the nature of research in Creative Writing. Following up on this, recent PhD graduate, Shanta Everington, shares her experience of adapting her practice-based PhD research for publication. … Continue reading
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From PhD Thesis to Monograph: Tips for Editing Your First Book
Heather Hind is a Lecturer in English Literature with research interests in Victorian literature and material culture. She is currently turning her PhD thesis into a monograph. In this post, the second in our series on the PhD and beyond, … Continue reading
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Tagged academic publishing, British Academy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Hairwork, Heather Hind, Helen Sword, Jenn McClearen, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Leverhulme, Manuscript Works Archive, Margaret Oliphant, Monograph, PhD Thesis, Publish Not Perish, Royal Historical Society, The Book Proposal Book, The Thesis Whisperer, Victorian Literature and Culture, Wilkie Collins
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The Ins and Outs of Archival Research
Part-time postgraduate researcher, Antonia Saunders, kicks off our series on the PhD journey and beyond with her reflections on a recent trip to Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. As Antonia reveals, her visit not only furthered her research into how 19th-century historians … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th-century ideas of Jewishness, Antonia Saunders, Benjamin Disraeli, Bodleian Libraries, George Eliot, Gordon S. Haight, Magdalen College, Maria Edgeworth, New College, Old Bodleian Library, Open University, St. Stephen’s House, The Spanish Gypsy, Weston Library
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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
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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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Adam Baldwin on helping George Griffith wing his way into modern critical consciousness
We are proud to announce that this year’ s Peter Nicholls Prize has been awarded by the Science Fiction Foundation to Adam Baldwin. Adam is a fourth-year PhD student here with us at the Open University. He completed his BA … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Baldwin, adventure romance, adventure writing, After London, Arthur Conan Doyle, early science fiction, Edward Bellamy, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, future-war dramas, George Chesney, George Griffith, H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Helville USA, Jules Verne, Looking Backward, Mary Shelley, Peter Nicholls Prize, Richard Jeffries, Roger Luckhurst, Sally Ledger, science fiction, Science Fiction Foundation, Science Fiction Foundation’s summer 2023 issue (no. 145), scientific romance, Secularizing the Destruction of Gomorrah in George Griffith’s Hellville, Steven McLean, The Angel of the Revolution, The Battle of Dorking, The Coming Race, The Last Man, Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea, William Morris
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