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Happy birthday to Percy Bysshe Shelley, born #OTD 231 years ago!
To celebrate, we are delighted to share the Call for Papers for the 2024 Shelley Conference: theshelleyconference.com/cal…
We look forward to welcoming Shelleyans to @KeatsHouse 28-29 June 2024
#Shelley200 @MHRABooks
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I also write scripts. Of my plays, 'Untitled 1' won The Hindu playwright prize, 'Name, Place, Animal, Thing' was shortlisted for the same prize, 'Jam' was regional winner viz the BBC playwriting prize. Published as 3 plays, currently free on kindle: amazon.co.uk/Three-Plays-Unt…
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'City of Incident: A novel in 12 parts' and 'Prelude to a Riot' are both short novels. Prelude... won the Tata Litlive award for fiction and was shortlisted for the JCB book prize the same year.
City of Incident is my newest book. A link to reviews here: knownturf.blogspot.com/2022/…
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TOMORROW!
💡 This academic year has seen many fascinating @Inventions_Text seminars from our wonderful visiting speakers and we're really looking forward to closing out the year with our PGR Works in Progress!
✏️ Join us at 17:30, online or in person: bit.ly/45yH1T9
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✏️ An award-winning writer, a Shakespearean, a Contemporary Poet and a novue researcher on the Elegy come together at Inventions of the Text!
💡 You won't want to miss our last @Inventions_Text Seminar of the year!
Sign up to join us next Wednesday: bit.ly/45yH1T9
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✏️ PGR Work in Progress
💡 Our final @Inventions_Text seminar of the year is live!
The session will take place on the 14th June, in person and online.
Register here: bit.ly/45yH1T9
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Update: it’s happening TODAY & we couldn’t be more excited!
Event notice - @DrMariamWassif's talk “The Disordered Cosmos”: Classical Rhetoric in Mansfield Park and Phillis Wheatley Peters is taking place TOMORROW ⤵️
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On 13 May we’ll be co-hosting an Open Day with the @unibirmingham Dpt of Drama and Theatre and our partners @TheRSC. Sign up ⬇️ and you’ll even get discounted tickets to Greg Doran’s production of ‘Cymbeline’! birmingham.ac.uk/schools/eda…
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As promised, here is the first episode of The Bibliography! Host Natalie is joined by our very own Jess and Ellie to discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story'. open.spotify.com/episode/29V…
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🌳 William Wordsworth's The Borderers 🌳
Our next @Inventions_Text Seminar will be taking place on Wednesday 26th April!
Prof Jeffrey N Cox will be joining us virtually for his talk - make sure to sign up below!
bit.ly/3jHONqS
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This month also features our next @Inventions_Text seminar! Prof Jeffrey N Cox's talk on 'The Borderers,' will be on the 26th April online.
Register here: bit.ly/3jHONqS
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Look at this fantastic news! Join Lina, one of our recent Creative Writing MA graduates, at @NewWritingNorth's 'Read Them Your Writes'.
Thursday 16th March @Tyneside_Irish from 7:45 p.m.
Book your spot on the open mic and grab a ticket here: newwritingnorth.com/event/re…
So excited to share that I’ll read my story “a Jordanian in Newcastle” in front an audience with an event organised by @NewWritingNorth presented by @AdamCSharp
I originally wrote the piece for the experiments in writing module with @_dodo & @notrockyhorror
Welcome to join 🥰
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Our next @Inventions_Text seminar is taking place on the 15th March! 💡
Prof Jeffrey N Cox will be joining us online for his talk on Wordsworth's The Borderers! 🍃
Sign up here: bit.ly/3jHONqS
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We're excited that our next #BARSDigiEvent is just over a month away!
Join us for 'Romantic Portraits and their Afterlives: Media Arts in Dialogue'
Thursday 9th March 2023 – 5pm to 6:30pm UK Time
eventbrite.co.uk/e/romantic-…
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❗TONIGHT ❗
Today's @Inventions_Text seminar starts at 5:30pm in ER153, and online!
You can find out more about Dr Carmen Faye-Mathes research below, we'd love to see as many people as possible there!
👉 bit.ly/3Z4MKMj
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Super excited that Dr. Carmen Faye Mathes is in Durham for the next month as Barker Visiting Fellow durham-rrl.org.uk/fellowship… She’ll be giving two research seminars (below & one for @DurhamImh) and visiting Dr.Gillian Skinner’s L3 class on Literature & the Emotions in the 18th c.
@READEnglish @BARS_official @BARS_DigiEvents @DurhamArtsHums @duenglishsoc @NCL_English @GradNorthumbria @EnglishTeesside @sunderlanduni @durham_uni
Don't forget to register for the next Inventions session. Online and in-person at ER153 with @FayeMathes Dr Carmen Faye Mathes.
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Our next @Inventions_Text seminar is taking place this Friday and we're so excited to welcome @FayeMathes from @UofRegina to Durham!
Dr Faye-Mathes will be presenting on 'Poetic Postures and Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's Abolitionism.' 📚
Register: bit.ly/3Z4MKMj
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📆 Happening soon!
Our next @Inventions_Text Seminar welcomes @FayeMathes from the University of Regina to Durham!
Her talk, Poetic Postures and Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's Abolitionism will be on the 24th Feb at 5:30pm.
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Our next @Inventions_Text seminar features Professor Jeffrey N Cox from the University of Colorado.
His talk, Wordsworth’s The Borderers: Early and Late, will be on 15th March via Zoom!
Further details and register here: bit.ly/3jHONqS