News — Falmouth University English & Creative Writing

Melissa considers Virginia Woolf's time in Cornwall and the ways in which the landscape inspired her writing

writing, communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 27, 2017writers from Cornwall, Cornwall, landscape, novel, creative writing

Rupert Loydell and Yutaka Inagawa Collaboration

Floating Urban Slime / Sublime is a contemporary cultural project that aims to create a cross-genre experiment in both online and physical space.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 21, 2017poetry, digital, digital arts, mixed media, contemporary art, Rupert Loydell

Portrait of the Academic as a Student: Anna Kiernan

Your lecturer reveals what she was really like as an English student.

communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 21, 2017portraits, english, writing, student life, Anna Kiernan

Poetics of Uncertainty: Val Diggle's Doctoral Work with New Mappings

PhD researcher Valerie Diggle discusses her work on deep mapping and our relationship to the past.

community, researchFalmouth SOWJSeptember 20, 2017PhD, research, poetry, mapping, deep time, Cornwall, writers from Cornwall

Open Mic: Kieran McGuigan's Midnight Cat (and Other Bodies)

In this startlingly gentle sequence, graduate Kieran McGuigan’s soft delivery and experiments with sound and structure will leave you wondering what just happened, and if it can please happen again.

community podcast, community, podcast, writing, student workFalmouth SOWJSeptember 19, 2017POETRY, open mic, performance, poets, graduates, experimental

Staff Publication: Rupert Loydell's 'A Circle of Mirrors'

Senior Lecturer Rupert Loydell has a new short sequence of poems, A 'Circle of Mirrors' published in The Licentiam: Erotic Literary Experimentalism.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 18, 2017Rupert Loydell, poetry, poets, writing, Creative Writing

Student Opportunity: North Cornwall Book Festival Internship

Come learn how a book festival works, build production skills, and rub elbows with some of the most interesting writers in the UK.

news, communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 18, 2017publishing, Cornwall, writers from Cornwall, festivals, North Cornwall Book Festival

7 Golden Rules for an Amazing Online Portfolio

MA student Holly Challinor highlights ways to show off your skills to prospective employers.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 14, 2017community, writing, careers, employability, portfolio

NEW! Graduate Opportunities Page

To assist our worthy and interested graduates in pursuing postgraduate studies, literary jobs and other cool post-graduation stuff, we’ve organised a space to let you know about opportunities

communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 13, 2017graduates, opportunities, alumnae

In Dark Places, Published by Falmouth University and the National Trust

Falmouth English and Creative Writing is delighted to announce the publication of In Dark Places, Falmouth’s first collaborative publishing venture with National Trust Publishing.

5 Tools to Help You Stay on Top of Your Sh*t This Semester

Whether you're first, second or third year, an MA or a PhD student, this infographic will help make you a total organisation wad.

communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 12, 2017study skills, organisation, writing, academic writing, academia, infographic

Does Reading Make Us Better People? by Melissa Saryazdi

This book changed me. Most of us have heard or said that before. But can literature really change people? Science says yes.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 6, 2017reading, literature, empathy, theory of mind, research, english

Choosing to be a Writer, by C.J. Flood

Her debut novel, Infinite Sky, won the 2014 Branford Boase award. This is Chelsey's speech for our graduating third years.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 30, 2017writing, writers from Cornwall, Cornwall, third year, CJ Flood, YA, fiction, advice for writers

Open Mic: Adriana Ciontea's Night Poems

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Adriana is studying Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Her poems are about people and the fragility of human condition.