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Tag Archives: Milton Keynes Literary Festival
Flash Fiction and the Paradox of Constraint
This spring our Contemporary Cultures of Writing research group is collaborating with Milton Keynes Literary Festival to run The long and short of it: From flash fiction to the doorstop novel – a series of online and in-person conversations between OU … Continue reading
It’s not about you! Top tips for chairing literary events
The Open University’s Art’s Research Centre collaborated with Milton Keynes Literary Festival to train OU staff and MK Lit Fest volunteers to chair conversations with authors ahead of our joint events series, The Long and Short of It: From flash … Continue reading
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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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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