Dr Corinne Fowler: “I am Director of the Centre for New Writing, which seeks to diversify literary voices beyond the metropolitan mainstream. I specialise in contemporary writing by black and Asian Britons (concentrating on regional writing, literary economy and rurality) with an additional specialism in travel writing. I am author of Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of…
The Higher Education Committee is delighted to welcome five new members from March 2020. Katherine Baxter is associate professor at Northumbria University, with expertise in modern literature, postcolonial, and cross-cultural scholarship. For several years she has been the General Editor of English: The Journal of the English Association. Katherine Heavey is lecturer in early modern…
The Betty Haigh Shakespeare prize is an essay competition open to any sixth form student of English literature. This year, students were asked to submit essays on Shakespeare film adaptations. Niamh’s essay focused on Hamlet, analysing the ‘nunnery’ scene in Hamlet (dir. Michael Almereyda, 2000). Judges Pam Bickley and Jenny Stevens, who are also Trustees and…
The English Association is seeking to renew the editorship of English, its flagship journal, from 1 January 2021 for a 5-year term. English was founded in 1936 and is published by Oxford University Press, producing four issues each year. Its circulation covers academic institutions and individuals worldwide. English provides a forum for people who think hard and passionately…
The THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY WRITING COMPETITION is now open to Y9, Y10, Y11 and A-level students. Write an essay on any aspect of the work and legacy of Thomas Hardy, or a piece of creative writing in your own voice inspired by Hardy. You could consider: is Thomas Hardy’s writing relevant to today’s world? For example, what…
We are delighted to announce that submissions to the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards 2020 are now open! Established in 1995, the Awards are presented by The English Association to the best children’s picture books of the year. Awards are given to fiction and non-fiction in age ranges 4-7 years and 7-11 years. The…
We are looking for colleagues to join our Higher Education Committee The English Association invites nominations from the subject community to fill three new positions on its HE Committee. We are looking for new members with experience of leadership in the discipline, and demonstrable commitment to English Studies; this includes leadership shown by…
Poetry By Heart is back with more competition options, expanded website resources for teaching and learning about poetry, and an exciting new partnership to bring more benefits to teachers and pupils in association with the English Association, The Poetry Society, The Poetry Archive and Homerton College. Individual and group recitation competition entries…
Upon the announcement of the winners of the 2019 Booker Prize The EA sends warm congratulations to Professor Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the 2019 Booker prize with Girl, Woman, Other. “Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of 12 very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families,…