News — Falmouth University English & Creative Writing

To assist our worthy and interested graduates in pursuing postgraduate studies, literary jobs and other cool post-graduation stuff, we’ve organised a space to let you know about opportunities

communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 13, 2017graduates, opportunities, alumnae

In Dark Places, Published by Falmouth University and the National Trust

Falmouth English and Creative Writing is delighted to announce the publication of In Dark Places, Falmouth’s first collaborative publishing venture with National Trust Publishing.

5 Tools to Help You Stay on Top of Your Sh*t This Semester

Whether you're first, second or third year, an MA or a PhD student, this infographic will help make you a total organisation wad.

communityFalmouth SOWJSeptember 12, 2017study skills, organisation, writing, academic writing, academia, infographic

David Constantine Reading at Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival

David's lyrically intense poetry draws from influences of Dante, Homer, Blake and Yeats.

Summer Selections: As reader, do you know, or did you see?

In the last essay of the showcase, Jessica Hawes investigates the manipulation of reader within Atonement, exploring a tension between innocence and knowingness.

writing, student work, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 7, 2017summer selections, critical writing

Does Reading Make Us Better People? by Melissa Saryazdi

This book changed me. Most of us have heard or said that before. But can literature really change people? Science says yes.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 6, 2017reading, literature, empathy, theory of mind, research, english

Summer Selections: Jack Maggs and Self-Authorship

Emma Baker explores self and authorship in her reflection on Peter Carey’s Novel.

student work, writing, newsFalmouth SOWJSeptember 5, 2017summer selections, critical writing

Summer Selections: Check Out

In slick and frank prose Lorraine Sharpe takes on the 'massive supermarket’ of life.

writing, student work, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 31, 2017summer selections, creative writing

Choosing to be a Writer, by C.J. Flood

Her debut novel, Infinite Sky, won the 2014 Branford Boase award. This is Chelsey's speech for our graduating third years.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 30, 2017writing, writers from Cornwall, Cornwall, third year, CJ Flood, YA, fiction, advice for writers

Staff Publication: The Co-ordinates of Doubt

The second collaborative sequence from Daniel Y. Harris and Falmouth Lecturer Rupert M. Loydell is now available for purchase

writing, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 29, 2017publications, poetry

Digital Archive Associate Scheme: Opportunity for 3rd Year Students

Third year students are invited to apply to the Apples and Snakes Digital Archive Associate Scheme

newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 29, 2017spoken word, research, archive, digital

Summer Selections: Jack Maggs and National Identities

Chloe Godin examines National Identity within Peter Carey’s novel.

writing, student work, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 24, 2017critical writing, summer selections

Open Mic: Adriana Ciontea's Night Poems

Born in Bucharest, Romania, Adriana is studying Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Her poems are about people and the fragility of human condition.

Uncanny Readings: The Remembering Body

Phd researcher Adam Russell recalls an encounter with Graham Greene's words in Amsterdam and reflects on that moment when a book chooses you.

uncanny readings, podcastFalmouth SOWJAugust 20, 2017

Authors I Love, by Charlie Bown

Graduate Charlotte Bown on the books that float her boat.

community, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 18, 2017books, book reviews, alumni, C.S. Lewis, reading communities

Summer Selections: The Development of Interactive Narrative in Adventure Games

Joshua Williams explores the evolution of interaction within storyworlds in the adventure game genre between 1976 and 2016 in these two extracts from his dissertation.

writing, student work, newsFalmouth SOWJAugust 18, 2017summer selections, critical writing