Beeatrice Lamwaka, one of the earliest Crossing Borders participants, has been featured in an Observer article, “How Uganda’s female writers found their voice,” by Elizabeth Day, 26th May 2013, recounting how “a pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell – or at least record – often harrowing stories of… Continue reading How Uganda’s female writers found their voice
Category: Writing
Contemporary Poetry in Public Spaces
Contemporary Poetry in the Public Spaces takes place on 22nd May 2013, 9 am – 5 pm in County Main SR 1. This interdisciplinary workshop at Lancaster brings together researchers based in the UK and Canada for an afternoon of presentations and debates on contemporary poetry in the public space. Contributions will focus on poetry and poetic practices… Continue reading Contemporary Poetry in Public Spaces
Bode Asiyanbi play premieres at the Lagos Theatre Festival
Bode Asiyanbi’s play, Shattered, will premiere at the Lagos Theatre Festival, which is being held from 16-17 February 2013. Bode graduated in 2012 from the Lancaster Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing, and we are delighted to announce his continuing success. He was one of the recipients of our International Scholarships for 2010-12. Shattered addresses… Continue reading Bode Asiyanbi play premieres at the Lagos Theatre Festival
Writing for Liberty: Aminatta Forna reads from her work
May 15th 2013: novelist Aminatta Forna will read her own work and be featured in discussion with literary critic and scholar, Zoe Norridge. Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Sierra Leonean and Scottish heritage. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water and two novels, Ancestor Stones and The Memory of Love. She… Continue reading Writing for Liberty: Aminatta Forna reads from her work
Gillian Slovo reads from her work
South African-born novelist, playwright and memoirist Gillian Slovo will read from her work on Thursday 22nd November 2012, 5.30 pm in LICA Event Studio A27. This event is part of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research’s Writing for Liberty series. It is presented in partnership with LitFest, and has been made possible by the generous support… Continue reading Gillian Slovo reads from her work
CTWR Associate Membership
Associate Membership: The Centre is now developing an Associate Membership scheme, which will be free for the first year of operation (October 2012 – October 2013). The purpose of the scheme is to make writers and academics with an interest in transcultural issues more visible to each other internationally and to extend the possibilities for… Continue reading CTWR Associate Membership
New Book by Sara Maitland
Sara Maitland‘s new book, Gossip from the Forest, will be published by Granta in November 2012. In honour of the 200th anniversary of the first edition of the Grimm Brothers’ collection of fairy tales, it explores the idea that fairy stories come out of forests. The book includes a series of walks in forests (ancient and… Continue reading New Book by Sara Maitland
Women, Culture, and the 25th January 2011 Egyptian Revolution
“Women, Culture, and the 25th January 2011 Egyptian Revolution”: Workshop 15-17 November 2012, The University of Manchester. The programme will include the novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah as well as others. There is going to be another workshop in March in Cairo on the same theme but with a greater focus on literature. Click here for poster… Continue reading Women, Culture, and the 25th January 2011 Egyptian Revolution
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Roger Bromley
Roger Bromley’s Inaugural Lecture: “Keeping the Narrative Alive: Reading and Writing the Arab Spring,” took place on 17th October 2012, 5 pm, LICA Event Studio A27. “It has been repeatedly said that the Occupy movement has ‘changed the conversation’ but the Arab Spring has done this and more by developing new and sustainable cultural rhythms… Continue reading The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Roger Bromley
Sticking to My Footsteps
eBook now Available! Sticking to my Footsteps is an anthology of new writing, written and edited by members of FEMRITE Women Writers Association in Kampala, Uganda. The director of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Graham Mort, visited Kampala in July 2011 to take part in FEMRITE’s Writing Uganda festival and returned in April… Continue reading Sticking to My Footsteps