Karen Risby, UK artist creates contemporary ceramic sculpture, wall hangings and porcelain accessories #WomensArt

Recording of Dr Carrie Etter reading from her new collection on Mark McGuinness podcast.

Dr Etter leads Poetry on our MA in Creative Writing and supervises PhD students.

Ash Bond’s children’s novel, Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm, debuts Thursday.

Ash is a PhD student and Teaching Scholar with Creative Writing and Classics. She teaches on undergraduate units and often organises reading events for MA students.

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

Fiction writers, looking for a full-time, permanent university post in an excellent department - see below:

Tripped over my feet and hit the pavement Monday afternoon. Sprained wrist, re-injured knee, concussion. I waited twelve hours for the most brilliant care on the planet. Let’s not lose the best thing about this country.

A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt

a cherry tree
being nourished
by falling blossoms

Basho

This 1841 watercolour is a painting by writer of 'Wuthering Heights' Emily Brontë. It depicts her pet merlin The bird of prey was rescued from the moors near her home and Brontë named the bird 'Nero'. The Brontë siblings all had good skills in art. #WomensArt

'Sewing on the Step' by contemporary UK painter Dee Nickerson #WomensArt

This post-nuke apocalypse classic was filmed in my hometown and many of the extras who were casualties in the gym hospital scene were my friends and family.

Bit upsetting.

'Anatomy brooches' by Hiné Mizushima, Japanese, slow crafter, miniature collage artist, illustrator, stop-motion music video artist who lives in Vancouver #womensart

Just quoting this to save for another student, who has created an enormous sci-fi universe and now struggles to tell just the one story within its magnificent, sprawling beauty.

Frida Kahlo described as...
“A ribbon tied around a bomb” by Surrealist André Breton....
#WomensArt

I’m just quoting this so I can play it for that one student I’ve tried and tried and tried to cure…

A new Karin Celestine book is always a reason to dance.

I have spent my life with scholars, and it has been a delight.

Emily Blincoe, contemporary artist known for her 'arrangements' featuring foods, natural elements or other objects #WomensArt

'Nasturtium' pattern c.1933, a design of Clarice Cliff (1899 – 1972), influential English ceramic artist and designer #WomensArt

Another school library service facing the chop - do please sign.
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