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The lists of News and Events covers those from Drama and Creative Writing along with those from the School of English.

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Recent News

Description: In February 2025, we sat down with Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024), among other works. We discussed her work, its scope, and its influences. We talked about trans experience and how that shapes and is shaped by fictional writing, the influence of political and artistic movements on Jacques' own fiction, modernist film and literature, trans and LGBTQ representation in the media, and much more. The emerging theme of the interview is that of the archive, which here stands as something to be researched, re-purposed, and invented anew, all with the aim of creating both a new aesthetic and drawing important political and cultural lessons. The interview was conducted by Joel Evans (School of English, University of Nottingham) in the company of a live audience.
Date:: 01/07/2025

Description: Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024.
Date:: 27/09/2024