2 weeks left to apply for🗓️for The Open University Creative Writing MA scholarships for low-income UK residents from Black backgrounds.✍️📚🎓Applications open until 24/07/24. Please share🌍shorturl.at/sBhhJ🙏Susheila Nasta, Lucy Writers' Platform, Lenny Henry, Royal Society of Literature, OU Arts & Social Sciences

Our @MKLitFest friends welcome former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas online on 19 Sept to talk about her book, Another England, and the stories we tell about Englishness. Tickets: mklitfest.org/caroline-lucas @carolinelucas #anotherengland #storytelling #society

Just 1 week left to apply for🗓️for The Open University Creative Writing MA scholarships for low-income UK residents from Black backgrounds.✍️📚🎓Applications open until 24/07/24. Please share🌍shorturl.at/sBhhJ🙏@KatyMassey, Dialogue Publishing, @classfestival, Brixton Review of Books, OU Arts & Social Sciences

OU academic Dr Bethan Michael-Fox’s podcast The Death Studies Podcast is featured in @theguardian ‘best podcasts about death’ list – check it out to learn more about the academic field of Death Studies Dr Bethan Michael-Fox OU Arts & Social Sciences theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

What brilliant news! OU Arts & Social Sciences Creative Writers are a brilliant bunch!

Last chance saloon!

⏱️Last chance saloon! Deadline midday tomorrow for The Open University Creative Writing MA scholarships for low-income UK residents from Black backgrounds.✍️📚🎓Please share🌍shorturl.at/sBhhJ🙏 OU Arts & Social Sciences

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Well, what do you know! Look what OU Arts & Social Sciences PhD student Zoë Marriott**Pre-order The Moonlit Maze!**2025 has been up to. Hasn't she gone and sold her first novel for adults to one of the Big Five publishers at the London Book Fair. OUGradSchool.

Huge congratulations to Khudayja Makda, graduate of BA in CW and English, who has just published her first book of short stories #TalesfromtheKitchen with Fox & Windmill press.

Enjoying the BBC Proms? Check out the 5 book choices of Jo Reardon, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing The Open University. From classical and opera to jazz and folk, these intensely human stories are woven around the music that forms them: shorturl.at/hwhxg OU Arts & Social Sciences

Our @MKLitFest friends welcome former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas online on 24 Sept to talk about her book, Another England, and the stories we tell about Englishness. Tickets: mklitfest.org/caroline-lucas @carolinelucas #anotherengland #storytelling #society

📢 Pulp Idol 2025 Submissions are OPEN! 🖊️Liverpool’s longest-running novel competition is back. 🏆Submit your first chapter for a shot at being read by top UK literary agents, publishers, & writers. ⏰ Deadline: 18 Oct 2024. Apply👉 tinyurl.com/3nyrn9be

One for writers! Our @Mklitfest friends hosted an online masterclass with the @prolebooks editors to tell all about literary magazines, how they work and how to submit. Listen to the podcast recording on Spotify spoti.fi/3A6FkAY #poetry #shortstories

The OU is hosting a one day event on theatre and activism on 6th of September 2024, 2pm, in the Banqueting Hall at Belfast City Hall featuring playwrights, theatre experts and academics. Everyone welcome. Register for free: shorturl.at/yFqnL

Our @MKLitFest friends welcome former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas online on 24 Sept to talk about her book, Another England, and the stories we tell about Englishness. Tickets: mklitfest.org/caroline-lucas @carolinelucas #anotherengland #storytelling #society

Congratulations to Dr Francesca Benatti, @OUFASS Research Fellow in Digital Humanities for the publication of Innovations in Digital Comics with CUPElementsP&BC!

Our @MKLitFest friends welcome former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas online on 24 Sept to talk about her book, Another England, and the stories we tell about Englishness. Tickets: mklitfest.org/caroline-lucas @carolinelucas #anotherengland #storytelling #society

Love poetry? In Cumbria this autumn? Don’t miss poet Gillian Allnutt reading in Shap on 12 October, organised by OU Arts & Social Sciences lecturer Lania Knight in collaboration with Wordsworth Grasmere The Garsdale Retreat and The Old Courthouse Shap with funds from Arts Council England

Congratulations to OU Creative Writing Lecturer DónallMacCathmhaoill!