Congratulations to our Creative Writing Society who were nominated for the Students Union’s ‘Phoenix Award’ for resurrecting a society that had folded. These 1st & 2nd year students represented the society they work hard to run at the awards ceremony on Friday 👏👏👏Staffordshire Uni

🍿This film has been written, directed and starred in by one of our *first year* students, Sophie Phillips -Congratulations! ‘Ghosted’ is a murder story with darkly magical realist elements, gothic plotting and hard-hitting scenes of gritty realism
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Recalling last year’s excitement as our very own Dr. Philippa Holloway Dr Philippa Holloway’s debut novel ‘The Half-Life of Snails’ was in this prestigious shortlist 📚 Congratulations to all this year’s shortlist Noreen Masud Benjamin Myers and all 👏👏👏

Hey- we know her! Dr. Philippa Holloway 👏 👏👏 📖

Today our first years worked together to construct a ‘Story of English’ annotated timeline (literature, language, culture, history etc) & used this to write their own summaries. It got a bit crumpled but that’s how you know it’s had a life. What else would you add in here…?

#Literature #CreativeWriting #UCAS #University2024 #UCAS 2024 #BookTwitter

If you’re wondering where our lecturer & course director Mark Brown has been this week, he’s currently in NYC on a trip with the Theatre students! Here they are in the Big Apple 🍎 🇺🇸

Informative piece on how to land a university bursary or scholarship which includes a mention of @staffsunildnd Details of Staffordshire Uni new #costofliving living scholarships in the thread... standard.co.uk/optimist/step-…

It’s time for the final text on our Children’s Literature module today - Philip Pullman #NorthernLights #YA #literaryfiction #ArmoredBear #amreading #BookTwitter

Joe Bedford Lloyd Markham dylanthomprize Midas Georgia Carys Williams Two sisters, two nuclear power stations and one child caught in the middle…

Both embarking on their own journeys and facing up to old fears, the sisters will soon learn that even the smallest decision can have catastrophic effects..

Please browse the ‘Burst Pipe Recovery List’ from Drop City Bookshop, Hanley. They suffered a major flood on 08/04 and are still unable to open. Let’s keep them afloat (sorry!) as much as we can in the meantime #amreading #booklovers
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Have a great time on the South Wales literary circuit, Dr. Philippa Holloway !

Happy #InternationalChildrensBookDay ! 📚

What was your favourite book growing up?

Another great session with our MA students today, in which debate included the posthuman, Anthropocene/Chthulucene, Levinas, Freud, Niemanis, Haraway, feminism & krakens!