Creative-critical research centre @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl exploring place & its meanings. Co-directed by @DrDavidCooper & @RachelLichtenst
Manchester, England
Joined July 2018
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This morning we are excited to be launching #PLACE2021 - a digital project featuring new work by leading writers and artists from around the world alongside students, alumni & staff from @ManMetUni #placewriting #place placewriting.co.uk/place-202…
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As part of Manchester Translation Series 2025, poet @supriyadhaliwal chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin & our Editor @SansyG at @Mcrpoetrylib on the role of translation in expanding literary landscapes.
18 March, 1-2.30pm GMT
Tickets: Free
mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library/wha…
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Next week affiliate member of the Centre for Place Writing, Dr Lara Williams, is in conversation with Alex Allison and Curtis Garner at @BlackwellsMcr
MONDAY 17TH MARCH: A night of queer fiction with @alex_j_allison and Curtis Garner in conversation with Lara Williams, discussing their fantastic coming of age stories about toxic relationships, masculinity and longing! eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fic…
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Very much looking forward to this event next month!
Dr Jodie Matthews, one of our Centre for Place Writing members will be presenting a paper titled: “Follow the Plants: Rhizomatic Reading Across Borders.”
Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. @NW_L19 @ManMetUni
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Next week affiliate member of the Centre for Place Writing, Dr Lara Williams, is in conversation with Alex Allison and Curtis Garner at @BlackwellsMcr
MONDAY 17TH MARCH: A night of queer fiction with @alex_j_allison and Curtis Garner in conversation with Lara Williams, discussing their fantastic coming of age stories about toxic relationships, masculinity and longing! eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fic…
Very much looking forward to this event next month!
Dr Jodie Matthews, one of our Centre for Place Writing members will be presenting a paper titled: “Follow the Plants: Rhizomatic Reading Across Borders.”
Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. @NW_L19 @ManMetUni
eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnati…
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Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. @NW_L19 @ManMetUni
eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnati…
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🇺🇸 A speculative documentary @ManMetUni Lecturer Reuben Martens helped write premiered last month at @UCLA. Grand Theft Eco, a machinima series and pedagogical engine, repurposes the game Grand Theft Auto to explore eco-futures of LA in the year 2050.
ioes.ucla.edu/article/ucla-s…
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“Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability” - an anthology of new writing edited by @ManMetUni @PlaceCentre postgraduate researcher Louise Kenward for @WeAreFootnote Press - is out now in paperback.
footnotepress.com/books/movi…
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Louise Kenward, a postgraduate researcher @PlaceCentre @ManMetUni has written a new article, 'Strandlines and Storytelling', for @psychologist. The piece considers lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing.
bps.org.uk/psychologist/stra…
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What kind of Manc are you?
Red or Blue? Arndale or Trafford Centre? Northern Quarter or Curry Mile?
Take our quiz below & join us at Feel Good Club on the 20th for a spirited chat about the city we love with authors from The Book of Manchester!
🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissectin…
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Strandlines and storytelling…
@LouiseKenward with lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing.
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' is published in paperback today.
bps.org.uk/psychologist/stra…
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An article co-authored by @ManMetUni @PlaceCentre Reader in Place Writing Rachel Lichtenstein and colleagues at UCL about their Memory Map projects has been published in the International Journal of Jewish Studies: brill.com/view/journals/ejjs…
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Join us for a very special evening presented by @ManMetUni for #GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with our Monique Roffey.
Jason will be reading from and talking about his first non-fiction book, "The Possibility of Tenderness". Ticket link in comments.
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If you missed Helen at Kendal Mountain Festival recently, you can catch her on @BBCCountryfile this Sunday at 6pm, when she'll be talking about Ethel Haythornthwaite.
This weekend @kendalmountain Helen Mort will be performing a new collaborative piece on #herons with musician Hayden Thorpe – poetry & sound, written specially for the festival.
kendalmountainfestival.event…
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'We Are Butterflies Forever In Flight' is a stunning new poetry film by one of this year's Manchester Multilingual City Poets, Anjum Malik @anjummalik
"This migration forced, it did not phase our creativity, brilliance"
Watch in full here: youtube.com/watch?v=SP2o3DwQ…