The Book Group was launched in October 2020 as a way to bring English students and staff together online during the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. Each week, one person talks about and reads from a book they cherish or wish to share, for whatever reason. It might be because the book is a […]
After signing up for an Open Day at the University of Leicester, I was intrigued to receive an email regarding the ‘Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)’ creative writing competition, run by Dr Emma Parker and Chris Shepherd. The prompt, ‘If Joe Orton were alive today, who or what would be the object of his satire?’, […]
Dr. Samantha Mitschke has been working in the School of Arts as an AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow since February. Working with the archives held in Special Collections at the University of Leicester, she has curated a public exhibition taking place in September 2016 as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the London premiere of […]
The School of English now has a full Master’s (M.A.) programme in Creative Writing. The course, which is available both full-time (1 year) and part-time (over 2 years), will officially start in October 2016. Applications are now open. You can see more details about the course here: https://le.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-ma The course grows out […]
I’m very happy to announce that my novel, Melissa, which was published by Salt Publishing at the end of 2015, has just been shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award 2016. The annual award is run by Writing East Midlands, the writer development agency for the region. Melissa is set in 1999-2000. On one day in June, 1999, a young […]
A poem by Bethan Nutting, second-year English with Creative Writing student, has been published on NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory’s blog here. As part of the second-year Creative Writing module, “Using Stories,” students are encouraged to explore the relationship between science and writing, and to use theories and concepts from science as starting-points for their […]
Very happy to announce that my second novel, Melissa, has now been published by Salt Publishing. The novel is inspired by true events. Immediately following the tragic death of a young girl on a small street in Stoke-on-Trent, all her neighbours experience the same musical hallucination. This is the story of that strange hallucination, and […]
Over the next couple of weeks, I (Jonathan Taylor) am taking part in two Literary Festivals, both of which are open to the public. On Saturday 20 June, 12-1pm, I’ll be chairing a session at the Tablet Literary Festival in Birmingham. The panel, which is entitled “The Spirit and the Story,” will include well-known and award-winning novelist, […]
You are all warmly invited to the launch of the 2015 edition of The New Luciad, the University of Leicester’s Creative Writing magazine. The event will take place in the Library Bookshop at 5.30pm on Friday the 10th of July. We will be providing wine, juice, and snacks, and asking some of our successful contributors to […]
I’ll be reading from my novel, Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), at the pavilion of the Armenian Embassy at the London Book Fair, in conjunction with the Armenian Institute. The reading will take place at midday on Thursday 16 April 2015. You can see more details here. The novel is set mainly in the U.K. in 1997, but […]
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