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I'm presenting at English at Leicester student-staff Book Group today on Guy Shrubsole 's enchanting 'The Lost Rainforests of Britain' - a perspective-shifting, beautifully written book.
Our online Book Group is a lovely community gathering for our dept; I look forward to it each week.
📢'Nature, Environment, Sustainability' Free Short Story #Competition
Judged by Mark Cocker, sponsored by Centre 4 New Writing & Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability, and open to writers resident in the East Midlands
📅Deadline: 10 November
Further info👇
…eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/08/nature…
Delighted to be leading a free Shakespeare workshop with @1623Theatre at Leicester Attenborough Arts Centre on 17 Nov as part of this year’s Being Human Festival (9–18 November), the UK’s national festival of the humanities.
Come and join us!
#BeingHuman2023
beinghumanfestival.org/events/shakesp…
We're looking forward to Being Human Festival this November 📅
Find out more about two terrific workshops hosted by staff and students in English at Leicester
👉Life is a Library - Queen Victoria’s Books (Schools Event)
👉'Shakespeare Against Humanity' (open to all)
beinghumanfestival.org/festival-event…
I'm reading from 'Scablands and Other Stories' at Keele University 🐿️ on Monday 9 October at 730pm. Details here - all welcome! keelehallreadings.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/jon… Keele Hall Readings Lisa Blower SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999 Creative Writing at Leicester Everybody'sReviewing ArnoldBennettSociety WritingWestMidlands English at Leicester
Announcing: 'Decoding Dickens: The Shorthand Mysteries'
👉Explore #shorthand in CD's life & work
👉Examine little-known #manuscripts
📖Read transcripts created by the Dickens Decoders
🎧Listen to readings that bring CD’s shorthand vividly to life!
Visit: dickenscode.omeka.net
A very warm welcome to our new and returning students in English at Leicester History of Art and Film Leicester and Modern Languages at Leicester! 👋
There's so much to look forward to this term. Let's get started! 📚💭✍️
What a lovely day to start the academic year. Blue skies, a fresh breeze and a happy buzz of activity on campus University of Leicester as we meet the new students English at Leicester
📢 #JoeOrton Creative Writing Competition Results 2023:
🎉Joint Winners: Hazel Morpurgo & Amelie Houseago Colyton Grammar
🎉Runner Up: Chloe Howe Bedford Girls' School
Read their hilarious Edna Welthorpe letters👇
ednawelthorpe.le.ac.uk/annual-competi…
Congratulations to everyone who took part 👏
Book now for 'How Does this Poem Feel', a free online English Association session led by English at Leicester Prof Shaw (@2020Wordsworth) and Dr Freer sharing work to help GCSE English Literature students develop a sensory appreciation of poetry
📅 28 Sep from 16:45
👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-does-thi…
👀Find out more about this wonderful piece of detective work by English at Leicester Kate Loveman 🔍
You can also read about Kate's discoveries in The Guardian 👇
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…
Looking for something to do this Bank Holiday weekend?
There's just one week left to catch the Punk: Rage and Revolution exhibition at New Walk Museum, closing on Sun 3 September. 🧷
Free entry.
rageandrevolution.co.uk
#PunkRandR | Punk Rage & Revolution Leicester Museums & Galleries
Coming soon: DECODING DICKENS, an online #exhibition about the role of #shorthand in the life and work of #Dickens
More to follow...
#CracktheCode #Dickens Code #stenography
📢Are you a writer resident in the East Midlands, moved by our connections with the natural world?🍃
Take part in Centre 4 New Writing & Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability short story competition: 'Nature, the Environment and Sustainability'✍️
Deadline: 10 Nov 23
Further details 👇
tinyurl.com/ysf9a5cs
Good luck to everyone getting their results on #ALevelResultsDay !
We're here to chat about places on our #English #FilmStudies and #ModernLanguages courses
📱Just give us a call on the number below👇
🏳️🌈 Emma Parker, 'Heart in the Right Place: Thatcherism & Love in @wintersonworld' The Passion' - essay available open access for #pridemonth2023 :
tinyurl.com/2fk5yban