English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University

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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...

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2025/2026 ‘Music and Philosophy’ Image: Georges Braque, “Guitare et Verre” (1921) Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm UK time.Venue: RHB 139 and online About the seminar CPCT’s annual rese…

@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...

Kate Kennedy and Eleanor Chan Music, life-writing and how to write about what you can’t hear

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!

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Application Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1z1N...

Deadline: 7th October (but flexible so don't worry if you're a bit late)

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Lineage: a new poetry anthology and small press With readings from Tamsyn Chandler, Louisa-Claire Einzig, Clara-Laeila Laudette, Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli & Frankie Faccion

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

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters | Southbank Centre

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)

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The Rose Field The Rose Field - Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen

Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen! The dream team @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on the 31st October.

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@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...

The Missing Sister: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff on the case the media ignored In her new podcast, the award-winning journalist revisits the story of Joy Morgan, whose mysterious disappearance was overlooked by the mainstream press

@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!

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Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’

@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 📣

One Boat | Fitzcarraldo Editions On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observ...

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...

Cholmondeley Awards - The Society of Authors Recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets

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.
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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-...

Cloistered ‘Evocative’ Sarah Perry ‘Immersive’ Katherine May ‘Profoundly moving’ Mark Haddon Discover Catherine Coldstream’s compelling account of life as a nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led t...

@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: i.hurst@gold.ac.uk
Register: forms.office.com/e/n8Hb6ZMabq...

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

Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novel

@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...

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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: A Forum (26 June 2025; hybrid) The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT), Goldsmiths, cordially invites you to Jodi Dean Capital’s Grave: A Forum  Thursday, 26 June 2025, 4–6pm BST RHB 137a and online (hyb…

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.