News — Falmouth University English & Creative Writing

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

Writing Rites of Passage: An Interview with YA Novelist Chris Vick

Vick’s YA novels are known to be dark and dramatic, gripping and heartbreaking; he is self-professedly “obsessed with the sea."

You're Accepted! .... Now What?

Amy shares ten things she wish she knew about preparing for uni.

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

“Perform Like Your Words Deserve to Be Heard”: An Interview with Gee Middleton

Highlighted as an emerging talent at the Penzance Lit Festival, Gee’s debut EP Syzygy is out now. Her follow-up EP Estivation is due for release Autumn 2017.

Lecturer Rupert Loydell's Painting Exhibited at Launceston Gallery

From 20 July to 25 August, Terre Verte Gallery in Launceston will exhibit Loydell's work along with those of three other artists on the theme Layers, Meditation & Memory.

community, news, eventsFalmouth SOWJJuly 18, 2017art, painting, Rupert Loydell, memory, time, Cornwall, mixed media

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.

In Dark Places: How Constraints Make Us More Creative

Janina and Ben explore the relationship between boundary and impulse in this piece inspired by Wyl Menmuir's In Dark Places.

in dark placesFalmouth SOWJJuly 10, 2017publishing

Deeper than Indigo: An Interview with Jenny Balfour Paul

To accompany Jenny's appearance at the Penzance Poetry Festival, Day Lilico interviews her about passions for history and travel, and her recent book Deeper than Indigo.

Falmouth SOWJJuly 8, 2017