Every summer term, the School of English’s Centre for Creative Writing runs a series of talks and events called ‘Meet the Professionals.’ This is an … Read more
Mental Health Awareness week: Reading, writing and mental health with Dr Eleanor Perry
There has never been a better time to explore the ways in which literary and cultural texts represent mental wellbeing. For Mental Health Awareness Week, … Read more
The University of Kent to host a UK leg of The Walk
The University is delighted to have been chosen by Good Chance Theatre to host a UK leg of The Walk, an 8000km travelling festival of … Read more
Mental Health Awareness week: Artists’ books and wellbeing
Dr Stella Bolaki, Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities, has written the article below on artists’ books and the craft behind bookmaking. By Dr … Read more
Mental Health Awareness week: Mental and social breakdown in Bessie Head’s ‘A Question of Power’
In celebration of Mental Health Awareness week, MA Postcolonial Studies student, Jemma Gurr has written a piece titled, ‘I am determined to survive’: Mental and … Read more
School of English Summer School 2021
The School of English has been working hard to make the Summer Term as exciting and intellectually stimulating as possible. Welcome to Summer School 2021 … Read more
School of English is the new home for the online journal ‘Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics’
The School of English is the new home for the annual online journal Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics. The publication’s thirty-second issue … Read more
Amy Sackville features on BBC Sounds’ Sunday Feature episode ‘Riding the waves’
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Amy Sackville, recently featured on BBC Sounds’ Sunday Feature episode titled, ‘Riding the waves‘. The programme featured interviews with various … Read more
Alumni profile: Sarah Waters, BA (Hons) English and American Literature
We spoke to English alumna Sarah Waters, to find out how Kent supported her career as a writer. She is currently writing her seventh novel. … Read more
Graduate profile: David Ishaya Osu, MA Creative Writing
We spoke to Creative Writing graduate, David Ishaya Osu, to find out what he’s been up to since leaving Kent. What are you doing now? … Read more