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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

As part of the Turner Contemporary’s Curiosity exhibition, three lecturers from the School of English – Ben Hickman, Juha Virtanen and Dorothy Lehane – will … Read more

This week sees the start of the Wise Words Festival 2013, running from Thursday 12 –Sunday 16 September, taking place in and around the City … Read more

In a new initiative for the 2013/14 academic year, single and joint honours students of English and American Literature taking the year-long compulsory Stage 1 … 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