News — Falmouth University English & Creative Writing

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

Summer Selections: The Development of Interactive Narrative in Adventure Games

Joshua Williams explores the evolution of interaction within storyworlds in the adventure game genre between 1976 and 2016 in these two extracts from his dissertation.

writing, student work, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 18, 2017summer selections, critical writing

Summer Selections: The Curious Case of The Murmur in Danell Szabó’s Ear

Read Joana Varandas eerie prose, full of tension and things left unsaid.

news, student work, writingFalmouth SOWJAugust 17, 2017summer selections, Creative Writing

Summer Selections: Through the Eye of the Ortrix

Charlotte Bown takes us to a fantastical reality in Chapter One of her children’s book.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJAugust 4, 2017creative writing, summer selections, student work

Summer Selections: Lyra and Lucy

Melissa Saryazdi explores the presentation of the female in Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights in reaction to C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJuly 28, 2017critical writing, student work, summer selections

Open Mic: Mould & Stardust with Teige Maddison

Teige Maddison is a lover of the lyrical, the evocative, and the hard hitting. On this Open Mic selection, you'll hear Teige reading in his characteristic powerful style.

Comment: The Reading Years, by Lol Candlin

A recent graduate of English, Lol Candlin considers the last three years, well spent between the pages.

comment, community, news, writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJuly 25, 2017community, reading, English, Falmouth University, books, Comment

Summer Selections: Confidence and Cowardice

Alice Rooney discusses innocence, experience, and knowingness in Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJuly 21, 2017critical writing, summer selections, student work

Summer Selections: Heal

Forming part of her dissertation this except is from the opening of Jodie Reed’s Novel which examines families.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJuly 14, 2017Creative Writing, summer selections, student work

Diary of a Student: #AmNotWriting

Joana muses on the important relationship between writing,
and the stuff we do to avoid it.

Summer Selections: Re-writing Personal Histories

In this essay Maisie Prudames examines the potential of the epistolary form within J. M. Coetzee’s novel.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJuly 7, 2017student work, critical writing, summer selections

Summer Selections: It’s All About Me

Rufus Craze offers a taste of his Cornish-based novel; two chapters provided, to showcase the diverse power of his prose.

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJune 30, 2017creative writing, Cornwall, student work, summer selections

Summer Selections: The Empowered LIFE-IN-DEATH

In tandem with her short story, ‘The House by The Sea’, Alice explores the Construction of a Feminine Presence in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’

writing, student workFalmouth SOWJJune 23, 2017summer selections, student work, critical writing