English at Newcastle

Congratulations to our 2024 SELLL graduates 🎉🎊

‘Bring in your voices, your free verses. Return to me’ 📚 - ‘Morden Speaks’ by Laura Kasongo ‘A Walk to Morden Tower’ has poems by @NCL_English students who wrote about this local landmark as part of #NewcastlePoetryFestival project. All poems here newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk/morden-tower/

Will you be in Newcastle during the summer period?☀️ If you'll be in Newcastle for all or part of the summer, there are plenty of events and activities you can take part in happening in the local area🏖️🏞️ Check out the link below for further information⬇️ ncl.ac.uk/students/summe…

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🤓The #JamesBerryPoetryPrize is accepting entries! This is the UK’s only poetry prize that offers 1k, mentoring and debut publication with @BloodaxeBooks 📚More information on how to submit & our wonderful team of mentors & judges can be found here ncl.ac.uk/ncla/james-ber…

Larissa Sansour will be in conversation w/us this Thursday, 6.30 pm FREE and all welcome #Palestine Futures: ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…

Reading this today? theguardian.com/world/article/… come and hear @alpashah001 get behind the truth of 'democracy' inc. deep state surviellance, cyber terrorism, arbitrary arrests and more TONIGHT at NCLA, 7-8pm - all welcome

This Thursday 2 May, @NCLA_tweets welcome novelist Mike McCormack (pictured), in conversation with @NCL_English Prof Bill Herbert (@billherbert) Free event, details and ticket booking here bit.ly/3Jz8ryH

Welcome back to campus, everyone! Here's to an amazing summer term ahead 🌞📚 #WeAreNCL

Love #Irish writing? Love contemporary #modernism? Come and meet the master, @GoldsmithsPrize winning Mike McCormack, talking about his new novel THIS PLAGUE OF SOULS Thurs 2 May, 7pm Free w/ registration! @StudentsNCL, @NCL_English @ForumBooks ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev…

🚨🚨PAID OPPORTUNITY🚨🚨 Dr. Nguyen and Dr. Woods have offered students a chance to participate in paid volunteer work during the Discovery Festival in June. Make some bank and learn about Child Language Acquisition on the job! Dm us for more info :))

Happy Monday! Our friends at @NCL_English are hosting Professor @AnkhiMukherjee9 on 'Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum', chaired by @shaliniseng Find her book (open source!!) in our resources here: decolonisingthediscipline.org/resources Enjoy! #decolonise #DtD @Northernpoco

🤓Tickets are on sale for Newcastle Poetry Festival 2024! #NPFP24 📚Please join us for 3 days of readings, panels, workshops, commissions, performances and school events 9-11 May @northernstage @UniofNewcastle Booking info here 🎫newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

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And... we're back! Counting down the days until @RaymondAntrobus is here to read and celebrate the life of Benjamin Zephaniah w/ @UniofNewcastle @NCL_English's Dr Shalini Sengupta @shaliniseng. Free 25 April, 6.30-8pm! ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/ev… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🤓Newcastle Poetry Festival programme is now live! 📚Our theme ‘In/Out of Place’ has a special focus on local places in the region. Please join us 9-11 May for readings, workshops, panels, commissions & schools events. Tickets go on sale April 4! #NPFP24 newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

My BBC Radio 3 Essay on children's learning and use of parental names is available for download, ahead of broadcast next Monday evening: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Thanks to my fabulous #AHRCBBC #NewGen family and to producer Ruth Watts, for helping me do 'linguistics by stealth'!

🚨There is just one week left to enter the Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Open to all students @UniofNewcastle Submit your entry at bit.ly/poetryprize24 @Idharker @NewcastleSU @HaSSFacultyNCL @NCLcreativearts @NclUniMusic @NCL_English @BloodaxeBooks

We are delighted to welcome Alice Loxton to @uniofnewcastle on Mon 18 March to discuss her new book 'Uproar! Scandal, Satire and Printmakers in Georgian London' Event held in association with @blackwellbooks Book now 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/856916348867

A reminder that applications close tomorrow 🤩📅