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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.
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By Charlotte Stevenson
Each year, to accompany reading Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, third year students studying our Twentieth-Century Writing module visit the Brideshead of the screen, Castle Howard. Here Charlotte Stevenson reflects on her thoughts of the 2018 trip and her experience of reading Waugh’s novel.
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By Charlotte Crawshaw
In the wake of Halloween, now more than ever monsters have been leaping to life from the pages of books around the world. In this Words Matter Creature Feature, Charlotte Crawshaw discusses representations of Witches throughout history from the past to the present.
Continue reading “Creature Feature: A History Of Witches Within Literature”
By Charlotte Stevenson
As York St. John marks Black History Month, Charlotte Stevenson discusses her first encounter with the poetry of Langston Hughes.
Continue reading “Black History Month: ‘I’ve Known Rivers’ Langston Hughes”
By Charlotte Stevenson
As York St. John marks Black History Month, Charlotte Stevenson discusses the Frederick Douglass event led by English Literature Subject Director, Anne-Marie Evans.
Continue reading “Black History Month: Frederick Douglass and his Legacy”
Thank you to colleagues in Creative Writing for inviting us all to the launch of the third annual edition of the York Literary Review! Please see below a message from Dr Caleb Klaces.
Continue reading “Join Us For The Launch of the York Literary Review 2018, 8 November”
By Charlotte Stevenson
As Halloween falls across the land, now more than ever monsters leap to life from the pages of books around the world. In the first post of our Creature Feature series, Charlotte Stevenson discusses the concept of monstrous humans with a focus on Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.
Join our new colleague, Dr Alex Wylie, for the debut of his new poetry collection, Secular Games.
Continue reading “Book Launch: Secular Games, a New Poetry Collection by Alex Wylie”
By Ethan Newton-Hamer
As Comic Week draws to a close, Ethan Newton-Hamer reflects on the current ‘age of superheroes’ and ponders what it is that makes a great comic book adaptation.
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Post Graduate Open Evenings
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Wednesday 20 February 2019
4.00pm – 7.00pm, Temple Hall
Book your place: www.yorksj.ac.uk/postgraduate
For more information about the event contact
studentrecruitment@yorksj.ac.uk
These evenings are an opportunity to meet staff and current
students, explore the campus and find out more about life as a
Postgraduate student at York St John University. There will be an
opportunity to find out more about specific courses, and chat to
staff from the finance and admissions department.
Postgraduate study is an increasingly popular way to continue your
professional and personal development, and government loans are
now available to help you pay for your course.
Learn more, earn more and achieve more with a Postgraduate
qualification from York St John University
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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.
By Freya Bainbridge
As York St John University marks Black History Month, Freya reconsiders the work of Zadie Smith.
Continue reading “Black History Month: Changing My Mind, Reflections on the Writing of Zadie Smith”
By Ethan Newton-Hamer
As part of our ongoing ‘Comfort Reads’ series, Ethan Newton-Hamer shares the story which initially led them to discover the Mortal Instruments series!
A week today, the York Centre for Writing is hosting a very special event. The Northern Fiction Alliance is an exciting collective of publishers joining together to showcase publishing in the north of England and to challenge London-centric literary culture. While their location is local to us, the reach of these publishers is global: the Alliance includes Peepal Tree Press, a leading publisher of Caribbean writing as well as Black British literature, and Tilted Axis, a pioneering publisher of fiction works in translation in the UK (they recently published the first ever Thai work of fiction translated into English).
Publishers and authors reading on the night will include:
And Other Stories, with Northern Book Prize winner Amy Arnold
Bluemoose Books
Comma Press, with Gaia Holmes
Dead Ink Books, with SJ Bradley
Peepal Tree Press
Tilted Axis Press, with Hamid Ismailov
Valley Press, with Nora Chassler
We would love to see York St John students at the event, so book yourself a free ticket to join us and to find out more about the innovative work these publishers are producing. Tickets are free for students and staff, but booking will help to make sure we have enough wine, so please do! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-fiction-alliance-roadshow-tickets-49640463964
By Erin Byrne
On Thursday 11th October, Dr Jo Waugh delivered the Literature Programme’s annual ‘Words Matter’ lecture, this year exploring the topic of Literature and Contagion. Regular Blog Writer Erin Bryne was on the scene.