Fantastic! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

This will be fantastic - looking forward to welcoming everyone back onto campus! 📚 ☕️

We've updated the display case on level 1 of Headington library with a whole troop of mushroom books from the libraries of Antonio Carluccio and Jane Grigson, both held in the Special Collections.

Fantastic to see two #ignitionpress poets, Patrick James Errington and Alycia Pirmohamed, on the shortlist for SALTIRE SOCIETY's Scottish Poetry Book of the Year! Congratulations! x.com/Saltire_Societ…

Before episode three of #uncannytv airs tonight on BBC Two why not find out about three Oxford Brookes University experts’ research into ghosts and the supernatural? #UncannyCommunity #journorequests brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/…

It’s out! My debut poetry collection, GREEKLING, a PBS Recommendation, published by Nine Arches Press on the feast of St Dimitri 🌼🌼🌼 While I still grieve the loss of my father this month, it comforts me to have created something that owes so much to Dad’s love for poetry 🖤🧡📖

We're really looking forward to this reading on Monday at Oxford Brookes University featuring a wonderful trio of poets: Mary Jean Chan, @fahadalamoudi, and Patrick James Errington! Everyone is very welcome; just e-mail us to register your attendance.

We're really looking forward to sharing our #ignitionpress pamphlets at the Oxford Indie Book Fair on 26 November! We're also helping to run a reading/open mic. If you'd like to read, get in touch! There's more info on the Fair website: oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk/whats-on/

Fantastic interview with Oxford Brookes Chancellor Paterson Joseph on BBC Radio London this morning!

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Our Upcoming Tour dates 🧵

November 7th 8pm Leeds with Nymphs & Thugs
At Hyde Park Book Club

With Emily Zobel Marshall Jasmine Ann Cooray James Kearns and Amy Acre

Hosted by Matt (Ferguson) Abbott 🍉 and Jake Wild-Acre Hall

Tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/bad-betty-x-…

£4/£6

How do we best express the value of English Studies? (31 October 2023, 16:30 - 17:30) Let’s get together! We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us ! 😊
Register soon because space is limited.

englishassociation.ac.uk/how-do-we-best…

The National Poetry Competition 2023, The Poetry Society major prize for new writing, is open for submissions until 31st October. Open to all poets worldwide aged 18 or over,top prize of £5,000. Find out more and enter the competition at bit.ly/2023-NPC

Delighted to see that this is out on terrestrial TV again, starting tonight! A shame so much had to be shot in studio due to Covid restrictions, but still, I think we did a pretty good job.OxfordBrookesEnglish

We're learning so much during #BlackHistoryMonth2023 ! Take a look at our display in Harcourt Hill Library - and check out our What Are We Reading for Black History Month book reviews brookeslibrarynews.blog/2023/10/17/wha… and our Celebrating Our Sisters reading list! rl.talis.com/3/brookes/list…

This is Amy Acre with one of the best ever titles - from my current read MOTHERSONG. Hard recommend

Congratulations to all the winners & thank you to the judges for shortlisting Bright Fear 🧡

🎧 Listen back to Dinah Roe on BBC Radio 3 from Tuesday evening, discussing Victorian literature on the Free Thinking programme.
It was part of a wider discussion about the 'Colour Revolution' exhibition currently taking place at the Ashmolean Museum.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

For #BlackHistoryMonth we delved into our archives and discovered that William G. Nicol of Sierra Leone was the first person from Africa to study at Westminster College - and so, the first black student at a predecessor of Oxford Brookes University - to read more:
ocmch.wordpress.com/2023/10/16/bla…

Peacocks & rainbows & diamonds, oh my! Tune into BBC Free Thinking tonight to hear all about 'Victorian Colour' from Sofie Boons, Matthew Winterbottom, Chris Corker & me! Which Victorian writers do you think were the most colourful?
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A fantastic event. Great to hear from a range of indie presses. Many thanks Niall Munro and Claire Cox, and to all the speakers.