OU-sponsored MK Lit Fest series The Long and Short of It: From flash fiction to the doorstop novel brings new audiences to ground-breaking Creative Writing research and offers PhD students valuable public engagement experience.
Emeritus Professor Dennis Walder remembers his experience of working with Benjamin Zephaniah at The Open University and presenting Benjamin with his Honorary Doctorate.
Professor Nicola Watson consults on OU/BBC co-production Being Kae Tempest which delves into the life of one of the most viscerally exciting artists working in Britain today.
A piece of textile art inspired by a Psychology research project has gone on display at Northern Ireland’s Linen Biennale. ‘The Belfast Quilt’ was the brainchild of Heather Richardson, Staff Tutor in English and Creative Writing.
OU Creative Writing lecturer Dr Emma Claire Sweeney celebrates launch of anthology by women from migrant backgrounds produced during a year-long Arts Council-funded mentoring programme run by The Ruppin Agency Writers’ Studio, which she directs.
A collaboration between academics from The Open University (OU) and the University of Zagreb has launched the first Croatian chatbot about reading.
Inspired by Professor John Dixon’s ESRC-funded Belfast Mobility Project (BMP), The Belfast Quilt, devised by Dr Heather Richardson, is a stunning piece of collaborative textile art - in the form of a patchwork quilt made of upcycled Irish linen.
Creative Writing student Fiona Monahan has been selected by the inaugural Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers' Programme as one of ten emerging writers in the UK.
The Open University and North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust have joined forces on a pilot to establish whether Creative Writing practice could reduce stress and improve mental wellbeing in Health Care Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lindsey Stewart is a Visiting Fellow in the School of English and Creative Writing at the OU. In this blog, Lindsey reflects on John Edgar Wideman’s short story Fever from 1989 which explores the 'colliding effects of a virulent illness, racism and environmental degradation'
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