Creative Writing PhD student Sarah Butler won 2017 AHRC Research in Film Awards

Sarah Butler, Creative Writing PhD student, has won The Doctoral Award for her film ‘Unearthing Elephant’ in the 2017 AHRC Research in Film Awards.

Literature in Translation: Peirene Press in Conversation

Fiona Doloughan, Senior Lecturer in English (Literature and Creative Writing) and author of English as a Literature in Translation (Bloomsbury, 2016) chaired a panel discussion on literature in translation, just one of many exciting events in the first Milton Keynes Lit Fest.

OU at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics

The Open University is taking part in the Imagine Festival of Ideas and Politics, in venues across Belfast, 20-26 March. The Festival provides a high quality showcase for new ideas on politics, culture and activism in Northern Ireland to encourage the participation of under-represented groups in political/cultural debate and discussion, to stimulate reflection and debate on difficult and controversial issues, and to promote free speech. The week-long series of events is aimed at engaging people in political/cultural discussion and debate in the broadest sense.

New OU/BBC drama: To Walk Invisible on BBC1, 29 December

On Thursday 29th December 2016, a one off drama To Walk Invisible will be broadcast on BBC1 at 9pm.  This takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these three remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English Language.

Written and directed by multi BAFTA winner Sally Wainwright, it was filmed in and around Yorkshire and stars Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie, Finn Atkins, Charlie Murphy and Adam Nagaitis.

Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers: Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes - OU co-production with BBC Four

In this new OU/BBC series (BBC Four, 9pm on Mondays from 17 October) Andrew Marr deconstructs detective fiction, fantasy epics and spy novels - the books we really read. The first episode focuses on page-turning detective fiction, the second examines the conventions that govern fantasy worlds, and the third programme investigates the rules of a classic espionage story.

Reading Communities London events, 16th September

The Great Diary Project and the UK Punjab Heritage Association (UKPHA) will be joining us in Senate House, London on 16 September for a day of shared-reading workshops, talks, a UKPHA WWI exhibition, oral history and show and tell! The theme for the day event is War, Memory and Reading. Take a look at our flyer, and come along for the free activities!