Errant Lancaster

We had an amazing time at Lancaster Castle today, thanks to everyone who braved the train cancellations and motorway flooding to hear four fantastic papers, including from our editors @sameeyaxmaqbool and @jamescdaviss.

Explore The CounterText Interview with our very own Professor John Schad as he delves into the intersections of literature, theology, and spectrality! A compelling journey through post-criticism and the transformative power of misreading. Read here: euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/co…

The launch of the 3rd issue of Errant is just round the corner!! 🥳🎊 On the 23rd of November we will be at the iconic Lancaster Castle for a very special afternoon of post-critical erring. Register for free here: shorturl.at/4QdqF

We're back! And with a BANG! Issue three has been in the works for some time and it's now live on our website: errantlancaster.wordpress.com/issues/ We've got more exciting news coming very soon, soon keep your eyes peeled 👀 but keep 23rd November free!

Our second workshop will be this Friday! Focused on short stories and Katherine Mansfield, we'll be using writing prompts to get your creative-critical ideas flowing! Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/creative-cri…

🚨 Today is the day! Get your abstracts in by 5pm to be considered for our 3rd issue of creative-critical splendor! 🚨

We had a fantastic time at the creative-critical writing workshop last night, there were some amazing insights into the poem and we discovered some fascinating new ways to approach the poem. Keep an eye out for our next workshop focusing on Katherine Mansfield and short stories!

Had a great time discussing Hope Mirrlees’s “Paris” this evening- serendipity to have been introduced to creative-critical methods through such a dada inspired piece!

Errant are running creative-critical workshop this summer! First up we'll be focusing on 'Paris: A Poem' and thinking of way to get creative-critical ideas flowing. Friday 28th of July 5-6pm, online. Sign up here on eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/creative-cri…

Errant is open for submissions for its third issue @ErrantLancaster 'submissions may range from personal/lyric essays to dialogues, poetry, off-kilter critical essays, satirical manifestos, and altogether indefinable modes of writing' errantlancaster.wordpress.com/submissions/

We're looking for your creative-critical work to be published in our 2023 issue! We can't wait to read the exciting work you've been doing!

Errant is now open for submissions for its 2023 issue!📖 We're looking for 300 word abstracts of your creative-critical (post-critical) work! Find out more about the type of work we're looking for and guidelines for submitting here: errantlancaster.wordpress.com/submissions/

And finally thanks to our keynote speaker Professor Simon Palfrey, as well as Niall Gildea and Elina Mikkila for their reflective papers on the mode of post-criticism.

And here's our brilliant panelists @RupSmit @frankiegardner_, Andrew Ainscough, @AnsgarAllen, @SciFiBaker, @afterportnoy go check out their work if you haven't already, some amazing stuff!

What a day we had yesterday! We heard so many Brilliant papers at the Castle Conference, really show casing some of the very best creative-critical work around! Thank you to everyone who came and especially those who gave papers, we hope to see you all again soon!

@yesitizess @SciFiBaker @AnsgarAllen Lovely to meet you @yesitizess, hope to see you again soon!

@SciFiBaker @SciFiBaker thanks for your wonderful paper!

Saw some excellent experimental papers and readings today at the @ErrantLancaster Symposium, and felt the necessity of marking myself with a black hole mandala😵‍💫

@catnissthomas Thanks for coming @catnissthomas! Lovely to see the Lancaster post-critical community turn up in force!

Reflecting this eve on the provoking & stimulating set of papers delivered today at the @ErrantLancaster Castle Seminar. Once again humbled & grateful to be part of this ever-growing creative-critical community - this time welcoming speakers from beyond Lancaster 1/

Had a wonderful time presenting a revised version of ‘Making Light of Essays | Making Essays of Light’, plus some thoughts on the literary essay and metaphor, at the 2023 @ErrantLancaster Symposium yesterday!

Big thanks to @jamescdaviss @sameeyaxmaqbool & @labsencedelivre for organising and hosting yesterday's Errant Symposium at Lancaster Castle