Category: Events

The Creative Writing Reading Series this week (Wednesday 12 November) welcomes the legendary Viv Albertine. Part of the original “inner circle” with the Sex Pistols and a … Read more

On Wednesday 29 October Patricia Debney (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing) will be performing alongside fellow former Canterbury Poet Laureates Sarah Salway and Patience Agbabi, … Read more

David Flusfeder, Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing in the School of English, is celebrating the publication of his most recent novel, … Read more

Olympic Poet, Lemn Sissay, and the current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, are just two of the major stars featuring at this year’s Wise Words … Read more

Early June at the University of Kent saw the UK’s first ever creative writing undergraduate conference, an event designed to provide ambitious and enthusiastic students … Read more

Where is our Home? The Kent postgraduate community organised an interdisciplinary conference reflecting on the meaning of the word ‘home’. Co-organised by English PhD students … Read more

Festival Review  (Festival organisers: Georgie Evans, Peter Adkins, Joel Tennant) I don’t think any of us had quite envisioned quite how much fun (and hard work) … Read more

On 20 May the School of English hosted a book launch to celebrate the publication of Nancy Gaffield’s most recent collection of poetry Continental Drift. … Read more

Internationally acclaimed poets, including those from the School of English, will feature in this year’s Sounds New Poetry Festival. Jointly organised by the University’s centres for Modern Poetry and Creative … Read more

Taking place around Canterbury from Thursday 4th—Sunday 6th April, “Wise Words is a festival that reawakens wonder and encourages curiosity. It offers unexpected, intimate and … Read more