Category: Creative Writing

The School of English at the University of Kent is pleased to launch our Creative Writing Competition. The School of English offers a degree in … Read more

Charlotte Cornell, PhD Candidate in The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research, has won Poet of the Year 2020 at the Canterbury Festival, for her poem The … Read more

School of English alumna Neelam Saredia-Brayley will give a reading, followed by conversation and Q&A session with Dr Kat Peddie, Lecturer in Creative Writing, at … Read more

Caron Clifford, currently studying MA Creative Writing, has been longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize in the Writing Without Restrictions category, for her piece entitled … Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, School of English Emeritus Professor, has just published a new novel, entitled Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2020). Afterlives tells the story of three characters whose lives … Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, School of English Emeritus Professor, has had his new novel Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2020) reviewed in the Evening Standard. Afterlives tells the story of three … Read more

Alumna Neelam Saredia-Brayley, who studied BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing and MA Creative Writing at the School of English, will deliver an online … Read more

Amy Sackville, Novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English, has written a piece for the Guardian entitled ‘I am not … Read more

Congratulations to Megan Warwick, currently studying MA Creative Writing in the School of English, who has been nominated for the Outstanding Contribution to Fundraising award … Read more

MA Creative Writing alumnus David Ishaya Osu has published a pamphlet of poetry entitled When I’m Eighteen (Words Rhymes & Rhythm, 2020). When I’m Eighteen … Read more