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Creative Writing at Keele has been ranked no. 2 in the UK for student positivity in the 2023 National Student Survey (NSS)! 🎉📖🖊️ 🎉
Thank you to all our students who gave feedback this year!
Six Keele subjects have been ranked in the UK Top 10 for student positivity in the 2023 National Student Survey (NSS) 🎉
Feedback submitted for the NSS 2023 has seen Keele students praise a variety of factors related to teaching, support, and resources ➡️ bit.ly/3KCPzQ9
Our own @RebeccaYearling recently launched a website for English literature school teachers, based on her BA/Leverhulme Small Grant project research. The website contains adaptable lesson plans and advice on content warnings: teachingshakespearesviolence…
We loved attending this AHRC Heartlands/Pays du coeur project @pays_coeur, followed by a Q & A with the artists involved (Restoke, Junction15, Patsy Browne-Hope). Congratulations @walkmorg_ceri and all your collaborators!
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Love poetry? Live in Stoke-on-Trent? Fancy reading alongside the city's laureates? Then join us for The Poetry Busk 21.03.25 12-4pm
[email protected] for bookings
Thank you @ForeverKeele
@stokeontrent100 @StokeCreates @Sotlive @SoTLibraries @English_Keele
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Miner Birds Celebration Day. 10.04.25. Keele in Town. Workshop. Archive discussion & Rose Hunter talking to @mikeinpride with Amy Parker performing last scene of the play. All free. Link below.
keele.ac.uk/society/keeleint…
@NewVicTheatre @NVBorderlines @keele
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Well that was a total surprise! But could not be more chuffed. Thank you.
@RSLiterature @ALCS_UK #vspritchett @English_Keele @stokeontrent100
And the winner is... @lisablowerwrite for her incredible short story "Blessing in Burslem"! Judges said "A piece of writing that offers the reader more and more each time you read it" Congrats Lisa! 👏 #ALCSAwards
Coming up next week (Weds 19 January, 1.30pm), #IndustryVoices welcomes editors Charlotte Marcus (@English_Keele alumna!) and David Barker to speak about their experiences in the publishing industry. All welcome! 📖📖📖 @KeeleCareers @Keele_MCC
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Officially launching the centenary search for 100 Stoke-born authored books 1925-2025. Where are you? Who are you? More info: lisablower.co.uk / [email protected]
@SoTCityCouncil @StokeCreates @stokeontrent100 @English_Keele @NewVicTheatre
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Great to see this today with Creative Arts & Humanities students @KeeleUniversity . We’ve explored @TheresaHeskins brilliant adaptation by going back to the Dumas original, film and TV adaptations, and the performance process. Rewarding teaching!
More reviews are coming in.
The Observer says The Three Musketeers has
'action thrills aplenty, from start to finish'
To book tickets visit: bit.ly/3TEDAqh
It was inspiring and uplifting to hear Nobel Laureate of Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, speak about the power and politics of language with Mariangela Palladino tonight at @KeeleUniversity @ArtsKeele
For tonight's Keele Hall reading we are welcoming poet Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative | 7.30pm Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall | Free | All welcome! ✒️📖
We are looking forward to this week's School Research Showcase on 'Mobilities' featuring our own @lisablowerwrite on 'Restoking the Narrative: 100 Books in a 100 Years'. Also on the panel, brilliant @KeeleHistory folks @SiobhanTalbott and Hannah Smith. Weds 20th, 2-3.30 in WM0.02
It's wonderful to see this hugely important and inspirational project led by our own Professor @MA_Palladino enter its final stages. We are so lucky to have Mariangela leading research in our Faculty.
Academics from across North Africa and the UK were among the guests at a recent summit hosted at Keele to present the findings of MADAR - a research project which aims to help displaced people in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3UHKc7i
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We’re excited to welcome renowned novelist, academic and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah to Keele on December 11th 📖
Abdulrazak will give a public reading of his work and take part in a Q&A session.
Book your free ticket today ➡️ estore.keele.ac.uk/product-c…
ALT Promotional poster for a public reading and Q&A session with Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 winner. Event is scheduled at Chancellor's, Westminster Theatre on Wednesday 11 December from 6-7pm, followed by a book signing. Poster features a monochrome portrait of Abdulrazak Gurnah on the left and event details on the right with a purple background.
This is a fantastic opportunity for @English_Keele aspiring writers...
Join us for our in-person Careers In Writing event for those aged 16-24!
Here you can ask questions, get insightful information about the various pathways, and have one-to-one sessions with our career experts.
🔗 buff.ly/3MKeimn
Many congratulations to Professor Jon Shears @English_Keele whose Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron has just been published by OUP! 🎉🎉🎉
Huge congratulations to our own @lisablowerwrite who has received an Arts Council England grant for her project 'Restoking the Narrative: 100 Books in 100 Years'. This project will use the centenary of Stoke's city status to inspire future generations of local writers. 📖✍️
Did anyone actually read the books in country house libraries? @English_Keele PGR Rachel Daley writes for @PGCountryHouse (Spoiler: they did!)
countryhouseresearch.com/blo…
The first @English_Keele Research Seminar of the semester is this Wednesday, 2.00pm-3.30pm in CBB1.030. @drnickseager will be exploring 'Mary Shelley, Perkin Warbeck, Counterfactual History, and Literary Annotation'. All welcome! 👑
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A great pleasure and privilege to converse with excellent @AnnieBrooker_ last night about #Intervals @FitzcarraldoEds @BhamLitFest Read this deeply moving call for a new, inclusive and co-produced approach to care and politics @KeeleInclusion
Announcing Becky Bowler’s recent archival project: taking piles and piles of unsorted manuscripts, putting them in order, and cataloguing them. 🗂️🗂️🗂️🗂️ Phew! @GreenBowlerHat
May Sinclair News!
A big trunk of Sinclair's papers was donated to the University of Sussex in 2013, but the papers were all out of order and it was difficult to work out what was there. No more! They are in order, and they are catalogued. maysinclairsociety.com/2024/…
