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By Abi Whitaker and EllIe Anderson-Ingham
On the night of the 21st of February York Theatre Royal hosted the SLAP event ‘Fat Girl Singing’ by Emma Geraghty. Here Abi and Ellie discuss the performance.
Continue reading “Emma Geraghty’s Social Live Art Performance – Fat Girl Singing”
Continue reading “Dissertation Corner with Hannah Tindale: The Family Saga in Children’s Literature”
Continue reading “Dissertation Corner with Ella Bramhall: Representing African-American Womanhood”
By Adam Kirkbride
Blog Staffer Adam Kirkbride catches Hadestown at the National Theatre before it strikes off for the bright likes of Broadway!
Continue reading “Finding Value in Classics: A Review of ‘Hadestown’”
This week, as a new year begins, we are taking a look back over the past 12 months and celebrating everything that’s happened here on the Literature programme this year. In this post, we’ll be rounding up the big stories from the blog. We don’t have room to mention them all, but here are the ones that made a real splash on the blog!
Tomorrow be hearing what you said about your time with us in 2018.
Lucy Pettigrew
In the run-up to Christmas, YSJ literature students are putting together posts to enter into the festive frame of mind. Here Lucy Pettigrew shares her poem on York at Christmas time. Continue reading “York At Christmas, A Poem by Lucy Pettigrew”
By Abi Whitaker
In this Event piece, Abi Whitaker shares with us on a deeply personal retrospective of last week’s event for the launch of Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry , a poetry anthology edited by Rebecca Tamás and Sarah Shin.
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Ella Bramhall
The third year of undergraduate studies is one of the most exciting and challenging parts of any degree. Here Ella Bramhall discusses her thoughts and experiences of this milestone so far and offers some extremely useful tips to fellow students.
Continue reading “Third Year Life, Graduate Schemes and (Sort of Helpful) Advice”
By James Turner and Annice White
As October came to an end, York St John University hosted the Northern Fiction Alliance Roadshow. Here James Turner and Annice White reflect on and share their experiences of the event.
Continue reading “A Night at the Northern Fiction Alliance Roadshow”
By Charlotte Crawshaw
Last week, Drs Adam Smith and Jo Waugh accompanied a group of students to York Explore Archive to consult a collection of texts printed in York in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Guest blogger Charlotte Crawshaw reports.