An embarrassment of riches this term at Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre. Starting on 1st Oct. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

2025 New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters, 2 October, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Booking link: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/geo... FREE TICKETS FOR GOLDSMITHS STUDENTS (check your email for details) @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen! The dream team @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on the 31st October. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rose-f...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social almuni Daisy Jones has been appointed acting News and Features Editor at British Vogue: www.vogue.co.uk/profile/dais...

Current @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social student, Hasti, has released their debut pamphlet. Congratulations Hasti. www.waterstones.com/book/young-d...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social alumni Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff has a new podcast out on the disappearance of Joy Morgan: www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Graduation day for our ECW cohort! In a timely fashion, some of our students have contributed to a fabulous #EnglishCreatesFutures video celebrating the skills of English graduates: universityenglish.ac.uk/english-crea... Check out the interactive skills map - where do you think you'll end up?

Re Ladywell Playtower 354 more signatures needed by tomorrow (Thursday 30/7) midnight! Please share to neighbours, friends and residents in Lewisham. This is urgent! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... @runningpast.bsky.social @ladywell-live.bsky.social @catfordparkrun.bsky.social @leeforum

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social tutor Claire Adam has been nominated for the Booker for her novel Love Forms. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... Huge congratulations Claire!

We are delighted to announce that this year's shortlist readings will be @southbankcentre.bsky.social as part of the London Literature Festival on 22nd October 📣

I'd never heard of @jcbuckley.bsky.social until @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social 2024. A couple of weeks ago, I started reading his work. OMG! He writes so well, you can't help but wonder if you should abandon your own meagre attempts. Lucky, smart @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social snapped him up.

Recent @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social MA Creative and Life Writing graduate Sophia Georghiou has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry collection Gloria Trillo. The award celebrates exceptional poetry by writers under 30. poetrysociety.org.uk/news/eric-yi...

Huge congratulations to Dr Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social, Associate Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, who has been awarded a Cholmondeley Award for her contribution to poetry. societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-s...

Congratulations to @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social alumni Madeleine Dunnigan, whose first novel, Jean, will be published by Daunt Books in February 2026.

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social alumni Orlaine McDonald won the 2025 Kate O'Brien award for her novel No Small Thing. Orlaine was shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award and the 2025 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Now out in paperback. limerickliteraryfestival.com/kate-obrien-...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social alumni Catherine Coldstream has been shortlisted for the 2025 TLS Ackerley Prize for autobiography for her memoir Cloistered: My Years as a Nun. Congratulations Catherine! www.penguin.co.uk/books/454197...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Summer Reading Group! Texts: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. Volunteer as a Group Leader or Mentor (with perks!) or join as a participant. Begins 14th July Email: [email protected] Register: forms.office.com/e/n8Hb6ZMabq...

How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social own @claireadamwriter.bsky.social is book of the day in the Guardian for Love Forms. Claire teaches on our MA programmes in Creative Writing. Claire will be at the @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre in the Autumn. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Centre for Comparative Literature. Enchanting Wor(l)ds: The Works of Marina Warner. Friday 11th July at Senate House. Free to attend but you must register here: sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-...

#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day. Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Jodi Dean: Capital's Grave Forum hosted by @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. 26th June 4-6 pm RHB 137 and online cpct.uk/2025/06/02/j...

Tonight!

Count down begins.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future... 4th June: The Future of the Novel @larapawson.bsky.social, @simonokotie.bsky.social, @neddylud.bsky.social, founder of @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social, and Amy Sackville, novelist and 2025 prize chair. It’s free, there will be wine, but you need to register.

New collaboration between @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought and Shakespeare in Philosophy @shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social Event on the 14th June: Shakespeare and the Slovenian School shakespeareinphilosophy.org/2025/05/13/s...

The Future of the Novel: roundtable @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social 4th June, 6:30-7:30, RHB 137 With Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social , Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social, Tim Parnell @neddylud.bsky.social and Amy Sackville.

Creative/ Critical symposium: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social 4th June. Includes info on Letterpress printing, comedy techniques in creative practice and @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social round-table on the ‘The Future of the Novel’. Register: [email protected].

14 May: Centre for Philosophy and Political Thought Research Seminar. Online and in person in RHB 138. Sultan Doughan (Anthropology) – Saree Makdisi, Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022); Introduction + Chapter 4 ‘Tolerance’ cpct.uk/2024-2025/

As the judges start ploughing through all the words, a reminder that we have this wonderful thing to look forward to.

cpct.uk/2025/03/27/s... Wednesday 30th April, Samir Haddad (Fordham): 'Derrida on Restructuring the University'. @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social CPCT research seminar. All welcome.

Looking forward to the Architecture of Conversion conference at @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social today and tomorrow. @srsrensoc.bsky.social: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... I’ll be presenting (storytelling?) research from the opening chapter of my book-in-progress on the Curtain playhouse.

This week @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Two-day workshop, The Architecture of Conversion in Early Modern Europe, 10-11 April. Sponsored by @srsrensoc.bsky.social and free to attend. www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ar...

Joe Dunthorne @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre, 26th March, 5-6 pm, RHB 137

RIP Alex Wheatle. We've lost a guiding light. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

@srsrensoc.bsky.social sponsored workshop 'The Architecture of Conversion in Early Modern Europe' 10-11th April @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social. Free to attend. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-archit... Provisional programme in images below.

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. LECTURE: Ian Balfour (York, Ca.) — ‘Extreme Austen’ (12 March 2025 @4pm, RHB 138 and online) cpct.uk/2025/03/03/l...

Join us in celebrating Lewisham at #DeptfordLitFest Discuss the Borough of Literature campaign so far with the Advisory Committee and hear new work on the theme "To All The Places I Have Read" eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-lewisham-through-the-borough-of-literature-tickets-1146034723709

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social own Richard Scott reading from his wonderful new poetry collection: That Broke into Shining Crystals.

Thrilled to say that oour brilliant author and friend Mark Bowles has been longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Bravo Mark! And to the other brilliant writers - hooray! www.authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-for...

'Humanities research is dynamic, its boundaries porous, and its impacts significant and varied.' – Professor Jo Fox, Pro-Vice Chancellor at @uolondon.bsky.social and Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study. uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call... #HumanitiesFutures #OpenAccess

Literary translation event at Islington Waterstones 6th June: Caroline Waight in conversation with Katharina Volckmer about Waight's translation of Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof. www.waterstones.com/events/money...

Nick Makoha in conversation with Karen McCarthy Woolf @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre, 26th February.

Ernest Dowson revived! Vigil and symposium tomorrow, 21st Feb.

Sell out alert🔥 Only a few tickets left for our #DeptfordLitFest event with Ella Frears and Jacob Sam-La Rose 📚 Poetry readings, Q&A, book buy and borrow 🗓️Thu 27 Mar, 6.30pm 📍Catford Library 🎟️FREE - eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-the-library-with-jacob-sam-la-rose-ella-frears-tickets-1145504186859

Celebrate Lewisham's local writers with us at our pre-festival event. 🗓️Sat 22 Mar, 2pm 📍Deptford Lounge 🎟️FREE - eventbrite.co.uk/e/lewisham-libraries-celebrates-local-writers-tickets-1145477828019 Enjoy an afternoon of spoken word, Q&A, book signings and a zine launch #DeptfordLitFest #lewisham

Refugees are once again being sacrificed to base politics. We brought forward this podcast with Sulaiman Addonia so you could not only hear a corrective to the media’s dehumanising refugee narratives but also because The Seers is one of the best, most radical novels out there. Enjoy! pod.fo/e/2ab6da

CFP: The Architecture of Conversion in #EarlyModern Europe Goldsmiths University of London 10-11 April 2025 Deadline for submission 28 February All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ar...

Call for Papers: @srsrensoc.bsky.social sponsored workshop @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social The Architecture of Conversion in Early Modern Europe. Abstracts to [email protected] by February 28th 2025. www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ar...