News

New collection co-edited by Honorary Research Fellow
18th October 2019
Dr Helen Chambers, an Honorary Research Fellow and former PhD student in the Department of English & Creative writing has collaborated on a new collection of stories by Guy de Maupassant: Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (Riverrun Editions, 2020).
World Book Day: Creative Writing Academic Talks About Reading, Delightful or Competitive?
7th March 2019
Dr Sally O’Reilly, Lecturer in Creative Writing, has her article published on The Conversation about ‘competitive reading’, how we should take our time in reading and absorbing books, and not feel the pressure to read the right title.
OU/BBC Co-produced International Playwriting Competition Winners Anounced
23rd January 2019
BBC World Service and the British Council, with co-producer The Open University, have announced the winners of the International Radio Playwriting Competition. The winning play ‘A Broken Heart In A Warzone’ will be broadcast on BBC World Service on Saturday 26th January 2019 at 19:06. The winning script ‘By God’s Mercy’ will be broadcast on 2nd February 2019 at 19:06.
Contemporary Cultures of Writing 2019 Spring Seminars Announced
11th January 2019
Through presentations by academics, critics, and writers, the spring 2019 seminar series organised by the Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group at The Open University will seek to engage with issues of representation and modes of narration, auto/biographical production and reception, and the impact of new technologies on presentation of self and other.
Michael Rodgers' new book on Nabokov and Nietzsche
10th July 2018
Dr Michael Rodgers, Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in English, has published his first monograph, Nabokov and Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives, with Bloomsbury. In a post for the Bloomsbury Literary Studies blog, Michael describes how he got into Nabokov's writing and where it has taken him.
OU in Scotland Hosts the FASS Creative Writing Event with Bloomsbury
13th June 2018
On Saturday 9th June, OU students and other members of the public attended a buzzing event at Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh where they had the opportunity to meet world renowned authors; Jenny Colgan, Fiona Mozley and William Sutcliffe, as well as literary agent Lucy Juckes and Alysoun Owen, the editor of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Children’s Writers’& Artists’ Yearbook.
English Academic Sara Haslam’s Commentary Piece Published in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS)
12th June 2018
Dr Sara Haslam’s commentary piece, ‘No More Parades End: Ford Madox Ford’s last library and what it tells us about the “Tietjens saga”’, was published in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 8 June.
FASS Academic Dennis Walder Wins Fish Publishing Poetry Prize
17th May 2018
Dennis Walder, Emeritus Professor of Literature, has won the third prize in the Fish Publishing poetry competition for his poem 'Someone Said'.
Discussion of Women Writers at the Student Hub Live
13th February 2018
Sue Asbee (Senior Lecturer in English) and Fiona Doloughan (Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing) took part in a Student Hub Live session facilitated by Karen Foley on “Women Writers” on Wednesday, January 31. As well as discussing their contributions on Woolf and Winterson to A335 (Literature in Transition: 1800 to the present), they spoke more generally about inspirational women writers and indicated what students might expect to get from studying a degree in English Literature.
Creative Writing PhD student Sarah Butler won 2017 AHRC Research in Film Awards
13th November 2017
Sarah Butler, Creative Writing PhD student, has won The Doctoral Award for her film ‘Unearthing Elephant’ in the 2017 AHRC Research in Film Awards.