Do you want to know more about studying for your UG degree @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social ? Join us for a virtual intro session on Friday 8th December at 5pm: www.gold.ac.uk/open-days/

Please join us for the this week's session of CPCT's Research Seminar: 'Music and Philosophy': 26 November 2025 4-6 pm Seminar leader: Arun Saldanha (CPCT Visiting Professor) www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... Zoom registration: gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Come and see Claire Adam @claireadamwriter.bsky.social and Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social at the @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre on the 26th November. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Congratulations to Katie Parkinson who has won the @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Young Writer Competition for her story 'The Gamble'. Fantastic work from an emerging young talent. www.gold.ac.uk/schools-and-...

Roisin Dunnett and Sam Fisher @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre 15th Nov, 5-6 pm. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

We have a winner! CD Rose has won the 2025 @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for We Live Here Now www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

It's just under 2 weeks until @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 'Festival of Migration'! Come down to sample Choctaw and Irish recipes and discover the Indigenous histories behind everyday foods. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Writers' Centre event 29th Oct. novelists Sarah Leipciger and Winnie Li in conversation. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚 Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.' 📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)
 More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. cpct.uk/2025-26/ Wednesday 8th Oct, 4-6pm UK time 'Music and Philosophy' Venue: RHB 139 and online Zoom registration: gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Event. Kate Kennedy and Eleanor Chan on music, life-writing and what you can't hear. Wednesday 15th October, 5-6, RHB 137. www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Become a Student Rep: Get Paid for Speaking Up! Full Job Description: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1z1N... Deadline: 7th October (but flexible so don't worry if you're a bit late)

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 📣

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.