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  • Colorful postcard reading 'Greetings from Chapel Hill' in large, bold letters. Each letter in 'Chapel Hill' features images of local landmarks from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The background is blue with white flowers, and the postcard rests on a surface with a green leaf pattern.

    Letter writing is the inspiration for global OU literary event

    We are thrilled to announce the launch of our 3-day programme of presentations, creative readings and interviews, ‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025’, featuring researchers from the fields of literature and language, heritage industry experts and guest authors Karen McCarthy Woolf and Sigrid Nunez.

  • OU Creative Writing partner with MK Lit Fest for fiction writing series

    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.

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