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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 2d

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought.
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Wednesday 8th Oct, 4-6pm UK time
'Music and Philosophy'

Venue: RHB 139 and online

Zoom registration: gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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‘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…

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Kate Kennedy and Eleanor Chan

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

www.gold.ac.uk

English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 2d

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)

English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 6d

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

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

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 13d

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

Lineage: a new poetry anthology and small press

With readings from Tamsyn Chandler, Louisa-Claire Einzig, Clara-Laeila Laudette, Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli & Frankie Faccion

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 14d

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

Geoff Dyer: Why the Novel Matters | Southbank Centre

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 21d

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

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The Rose Field

The Rose Field - Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 24d

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

Daisy Jones

Daisy Jones is the acting news and features editor at British Vogue. She previously worked as senior editor at VICE UK, associate editor at British GQ and music editor at DAZED. Her first book, All Th...

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 24d

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

young, dumb, and full of poems by Hasti | Waterstones

Buy young, dumb, and full of poems by Hasti from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 24d

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social alumni Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff has a new podcast out on the disappearance of Joy Morgan:

www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

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

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · 24d

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?

#EnglishCreates Futures

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ladywellsociety.bsky.social @ladywellsociety.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jul 29

@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!

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’

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Jul 15

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 📣

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

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...

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

Winners announced at the 2025 Society of Authors Awards – The Poetry Society

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Cholmondeley Awards - The Society of Authors

Recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 18

@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.

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 18

@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...

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...

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 16

@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...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 12

@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...

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

www.theguardian.com

English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social · Jun 12

@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-...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 3

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