In celebration of National Poetry Day, Waterstones, Cambridge, will be hosting a poetry reading with a number of local authors including their headline poet, Mina Gorji. The reading will be followed by a 30 minute open mic session. The National Poetry Day theme for 2022 is ‘The Environment’. All are welcome but booking is required. […]
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The winner of the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University to be announced on Tuesday 4 October
The names on the shortlist are: Kerry Andrew, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams Jenn Ashworth, an alum of the Cambridge English Faculty and Professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University, has this year published her fourth novel, Ghosted. Link to further information about the shortlisters: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3mQlv5FsMJPkqwmFw1wMDlW/meet-the-shortlist-2022
Continue ReadingJuliette Bretan publishes an article in Engelsberg Ideas, September 2022
The article, ‘An unlikely artistic alliance: the wartime Britons who saved and celebrated German art’, is about a little-known exhibition of Mid-European Art in Leicester in 1944 which led to the creation of a permanent exhibition of German Expressionist works (including by Franz Marc and Käthe Kollwitz) in the city. Link to the article: An […]
Continue ReadingFive young writers shortlisted for the BBC / Cambridge Young Writers Award were welcomed last week for an experience day
They were given writing workshops from Rupert Wallis and Nick Bradley of ICE/Madingley Hall, a tour of Newnham College, and a session in the rare books room of the University Library. The winner of both the YWA and the National short story Prize will be announced on Tuesday 4th October in Broadcasting House, London. Here […]
Continue ReadingGraham Storey Lecture, Monday 24 October 2022
The 2022 Graham Storey Lecture will be held on 24 October at 5.15pm in Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site. This year’s lecture, “Art & Political Ecology: Extraction” will be given by Hazel V Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies […]
Continue ReadingRadical Art in Cambridge hosts a roundtable discussion, 5pm-7pm, Wednesday 26 October
The Radical Art in Cambridge research group (Lucy Howie, Alina Khakoo and Amy Tobin) is delighted to host a roundtable discussion on Wednesday 26 October, 5–7pm in the Faculty of English. This event will map the lost history of experimental art making and organising in Cambridge in the 1980s. It will focus on arts organisations in and […]
Continue ReadingBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications (Deadline: 15 Aug 2022)
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic welcome applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. About the British Academy fellowships: The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. The scheme aims to help develop the award […]
Continue ReadingMina Gorji publishes a new collection of poetry, ‘Scale’, with Carcanet Press on 28 July
To find out more about the collection: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800172142 Dr Gorji has written on her new collection for the Carcanet blog: https://carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/scale-mina-gorji.html
Continue ReadingDr Stephen Turton and Professor Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) launch Murray Scriptorium
Dr Stephen Turton and Prof Charlotte Brewer (Oxford) have launched MurrayScriptorium.org, an open-access edition of the correspondence of James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), first chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. The edition is in its pilot phase and currently holds transcriptions of 88 letters that showcase the range of Murray’s correspondents: authors who explained […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re coming to the @Cambridge_Uni Open Days on Thursday and Friday, the Faculty of English will be open 10am-4pm
Pay us a visit at the West Road end of the Sidgwick Site. As well as chatting to staff on the information stand, you might like to sign up for a tour of the English Faculty Library, scheduled to take place at 11.30am and 2.30pm. If you aren’t able to visit in person, there […]
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