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Creative Conversations Special Event: I am a Rohingya

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:33:00 GMT

A special event to celebrate I Am A Rohnigya (Arc, 2019) featuring editors James Byrne and Shehzar Doja

Decadence and Translation Network event

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:04:00 GMT

The final event for the AHRC ‘Decadence and Translation’ Network taking place on 13 December 2019 will trace the technical challenges and formal difficulties, the social obstacles and publishing circumstances associated with translating Decadent texts from the nineteenth century to the present.

Call for Papers- Catholicism and Literary Culture in Scotland, Ireland, and England: Medieval to Modern

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:35:00 GMT

This two-day symposium funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh examines how Catholicism has shaped - and has been shaped by - literary writing in Scotland, Ireland, and England from the late-medieval period to the present century.

Sophie Collins wins again!

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:34:00 BST

Many congratulations to Creative Writing’s very own Sophie Collins, who was awarded the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize for her collection ‘Who Is Mary Sue?’.

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Creative Writing- Inaugural Event: Juana Adcock, Kirsty Logan, Martin Cathcart Froden

Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:36:00 BST

For the inaugural event of the 2019-2020 Creative Writing Programme at the University of Glasgow, we are thrilled to welcome back three recent graduates of the programme to talk about their publications

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The Edwin Morgan 100 Conference - Monday 27th - Tuesday 28th April 2020

Thu, 16 May 2019 10:39:00 BST

The University of Glasgow marks the centenary of the birth of Edwin Morgan with an international conference

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Sarah Spence shortlisted for Beyond Borders Writing Competition

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:55:00 BST

PhD English literature student, Sarah Spence, has been shortlisted for her poem The Edinburgh Seven, 1870.

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Anthropocene, a new opera by Stuart MacRae & Professor Louise Welsh is available for Freeview 17th May – 16th November

Wed, 15 May 2019 15:30:00 BST

A team of scientists becomes trapped in the frozen Arctic wastelands. Tensions rise and relationships crumble, and then something appears, out of the ice.

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Greatest Glasgow Award for The Centre For Robert Burns Studies

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:19:00 GMT

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies has been selected as one of the Winners of the Greatest Glasgow Awards for the 2019 Best Glasgow Robert Burns Locations.

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Professor Louise Welsh wins the Most Inspiring Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:20:00 GMT

'The Cutting Room' voted the most inspirational debut Scottish novel of the last 30 years