Keele University celebrates scientific and creative impact of Darwin’s work

A day celebrating the scientific and creative impact of Charles Darwin’s work is to be held at Keele University.
The interactive day will use creative writing, drama, laboratory visits and field walks to explore Darwin’s work, 150 years after the publication of the ground-breaking On the Origin of Species.
In association with the Maer Festival, the university [...]

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Keele University Short Story Competition winners

The winners of Keele University’s Short Story competition have been announced.
They are:

1st Prize (£300): Far From Us by Melissa Darlington, of Crewe
2nd Prize (£100): My Dad’s Mannequin by Jan Bengree, of Upton-by-Chester
3rd Prize (£50): And After the Storm by Lynn Smith, of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
Keele University student prize (£100): Sunset by Christopher Prendergast of Keele University
Young [...]

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New anthology to promote Anglophone Cameroonian writing

New writing from Anglophone authors in Cameroon is featured in an anthology to be released in July.
 
The Spirit Machine and other new short stories from Cameroon is the first in a new series of books aiming to promote emerging Anglophone writers unknown in the West but “whose writing tells wonderful new stories in wonderful new [...]

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Advice for writers at Keele University

Writers in Staffordshire can learn how published authors got their work into print at an event at Keele University.
A panel including novelists Kate Long and Joe Stretch and poet James Sheard will discuss current trends in publishing and the role of university courses in developing publishable writing at 7pm on Thursday, June 11, in the [...]

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Keele University to hold creative writing mini-festival

Keele University is to hold a mini-festival to celebrate and encourage creative writing.
The Keele Writing Shoestring Festival will take place on Thursday, May 21, with sessions including: a workshop of writing challenges against the clock with a cash prize for the winner; a talk about the Creative Writing MA course at Keele; and an open [...]

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