News — Falmouth University English & Creative 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

The Boy With One Name by J.R. Wallis is out now!

This week sees the release of the latest novel from Falmouth lecturer Rupert Wallis

news, writingFalmouth SOWJAugust 14, 2017publications, novel

Diary of a Student: Reflecting on my First Year

Honeysuckle reflects on what she's felt and learned in her first year away from home.

writing, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 9, 2017Diary of a Student

Egyptian Houses: Interview with David Devanny, Andrew Fentham & Jerome Fletcher

Gabby Willcocks interviews David, Jerome and Andy following their reading at the Landmark Trust Egyptian House during Penzance Litfest

writing, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 7, 2017Cornwall, Penzance Literary Festival, creative writing, Poetry

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

Review: The Helland Reckoning, by Adrian Martin

This novel is a nail-biting read, taking gothic elements and weaving them into a modern thriller, set in Cornwall.

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

Comment: Heart, Ego or Magic? by Joana Varandas

An internship at the Museum of Witchcraft finds Joana in a seemingly fated, somewhat magical, situation.

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