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

The University of Kent, in collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University and the Canterbury Festival, are organising a series of events to celebrate the 40th … 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

Professor David Stirrup, Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies in the School of English, has commented on Hasting Museum & Art Gallery’s new Indigenous … 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

Dr Callan Davies, Research Associate in the School of English, has published a monograph entitled Strangeness in Jacobean Drama (Routledge, 2020). In his book, Callan … 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

Professor David Stirrup, Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies in the School of English, has provided a comment for an article entitled Native Americans … 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