Author: EC

On Thursday 3rd of October the School of English alumnus and twice Booker nominated author David Mitchell gave a talk to welcome back stage 2 … Read more

On Wednesday 25th September some 40 sixth-formers from local schools arrived to take part in the inaugural event of the Kent English Excellence Network (KEEN). … Read more

Welcome week is always the busiest week in the student calendar but the School of English put on even more activities this year, which made … Read more

The Creative Writing team in the School of English has pioneered a new initiative, the first of its kind in the UK, to offer Creative … Read more

From October 14th to 26th, Canadian artist Alex McKay will be artist in residence in Keynes College at the University of Kent, where he will … Read more

The Telegraph this weekend (Saturday 21 September) featured an extensive article by School of English lecturer Vybarr Cregan-Reid. The article chronicles the ill-fated journey of George Smith … Read more

Senior Lecturer Patricia Debney’s prose poem ‘Whitstable Spit’ has been Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes, and included in this year’s anthology, the Forward Book of Poetry … Read more

On Sunday 1 September Canterbury-based poets and readers will enact a ‘completion’ of the Canterbury Tales journey, walking the final (partly unfinished) leg of the … Read more

Graduates from the School of English at the University of Kent are among the most employable in the UK. 67% of English students that graduated … Read more

Dr Will Norman, Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English, has received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. The scholarship, which begins this academic year, … Read more