Write, Create, Perform
Whether you're an aspiring writer, actor, director, blogger or poet, at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ there are creative opportunities abound for you to develop your skills, widen your experience, and meet like-minded people.
Creative Writing and Drama in the School of English
Our Drama and Creative Writing team consist of published poets and authors, and experienced script writers and performers. The broad range of research encompasses all aspects of performing and creative arts, enabling students to obtain a diverse experience with practical knowledge. We offer students the opporuntity to develop their writing skills in poetry and fiction, practise their research skills, explore different theoretical practices of performance, and increase their understanding of English.
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- In February 2025, we sat down with Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024), among other works. We discussed her work, its scope, and its influences. We talked about trans experience and how that shapes and is shaped by fictional writing, the influence of political and artistic movements on Jacques' own fiction, modernist film and literature, trans and LGBTQ representation in the media, and much more. The emerging theme of the interview is that of the archive, which here stands as something to be researched, re-purposed, and invented anew, all with the aim of creating both a new aesthetic and drawing important political and cultural lessons. The interview was conducted by Joel Evans (School of English, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½) in the company of a live audience.
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- Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024.
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