Category: News

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

Matt Kramer, a recent graduate from the School of English, was recently awarded a three-month paid internship with Coca-Cola Enterprises as a result of his … 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

Dr Juha Virtanen, Lecturer in American Literature, has recently published a new collection of poetry entitled Back Channel Apraxia. The majority of the material was … Read more

Following the death last year of Professor Reg Foakes, the School of English and the Gulbenkian Theatre commissioned a memorial plaque in his name. Reg … Read more

Claire Hurley, a third year PhD student in the School of English, has been awarded this year’s Christine and Ian Bolt scholarship. The scholarship was … 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

Results published today reveal that in the National Student Survey 2014 our students gave us an outstanding rating of 94% for overall student satisfaction. The … 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