Kent welcomed back Little Amal – the 3.5 metre-tall living artwork of a young Syrian refugee child – to the Canterbury Campus for a special … Read more
Team of neurodiverse undergraduates launch new webzine
Writing Minds is a brand-new webzine curated and edited by a neurodiverse editorial team of undergraduate students. As a part of the School of English’s … Read more
Summer Litfest
A festival of literature, writing and ideas The School of English is delighted to announce the launch of the new Summer LitFest, a two-day celebration … Read more
An average week of a School of English student
Martha Grogan, who studies English and American Literature and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad, takes us through an average week, and offers some advice … Read more
The average week of an English Literature student
English Literature student Daisy Cooper tells us about her average week studying at Kent. “I adore having so much agency over which direction my degree … Read more
Shaping the world: Research Excellence Framework success for the School of English
The School of English at Kent is delighted to have been recognised by an expert panel in this year’s Research Excellence Framework, with 100% of … Read more
Award-wining novelist Kamila Shamsie appointed New Imaginaries Fellow
Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Hellenic Prize, has been announced as the inaugural New Imaginaries Fellow for the University’s Migration … Read more
Follow up – Charlotte Hanson’s Creative Writing Open Seminar experience
“The subject of my work can often be emotive and engenders strong responses from an audience, which is after all the aim of the writing.” … Read more
Creative Writing PhD student nominated for Bocas Prize
School of English PhD student Winsome Monica Minott has recently been nominated for the major literary award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Her second book … Read more
PhD success in Arts and Humanities
The Division of Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce a number of new PhD completions. The following doctoral candidates have recently passed their vivas … Read more