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Next month, I’m starting my Creative Writing PhD at Centre for Place Writing English at Manchester Met, funded by the NWCDTP. I’m excited for this new adventure! I’ve been very lucky to have had the support of many brilliant people along the way. If you’re in Manchester, let’s get coffee!

My book about how we can tell a new history of Britain through the city of Liverpool now has a cover. It's out next year but can be pre-ordered here: waterstones.com/book/liverpool…

*Please* do this. Students need time & space to be students: to follow their interests, read beyond the curriculum, be intellectually curious, share ideas with each other over a cuppa, go to talks on other subjects. They can't do this when working multiple jobs to stay afloat.

Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023 - exhibition The Map House - from 25 October to 30 November - exploring the evolution of London’s Tube system and the London Underground map. The exhibition will feature some of Harry Beck’s hand-drawn & annotated manuscripts themaphouse.com/exhibitions/57…

Morecambe Bay is 250 years old: Bill Shannon explains how, in 1774, the name ‘Morecambe Bay’ appeared on a map for the first time as part of Father Thomas West’s ‘The Antiquities of Furness’ #maps #mapping cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/morecambe-bay-…

1/4 This academic year we're delighted to be collaborating with Natural England on 2 exciting arts commissions (1 in Devon & 1 in Cornwall) exploring people's values assigned to nature around protected sites. Come & join the project team! buff.ly/3MVOIe1 #ArtsJobs

Just spent much of the train commute home dreaming of walking into this painting (‘Washdaybreak’, 2003) by Martin Greenland martingreenland.co.uk

‘I want to make some kind of gesture. An offering. A mark of passing. And to leave it here. Tied to the land’: about to re-immerse myself - for the nth time - in the extraordinary deep map of Richard Skelton’s ‘Landings’ #amreading

The Sound of the Fens: wonderful BBC Open Country in which Martha Kearney visits Helpston & Fen Edge to explore how the landscape has changed since the days of John Clare. Features Francesca Mackenney discussing Clare’s soundscapes bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Exploring the explorers’ maps: free hybrid Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) lecture by Dr Katherine Parker on 28 October #maps #mapping #cartography rgs.org/events/upcomin…

Seeing Red Oil on cradled panel 13x18cm Spanning the M6 at Sandbach Services. The southbound, north facing side, a vibrant red, with the northbound south facing side sun bleached and faded. This piece will be Manchester Art Fair with Saul Hay Gallery in Nov. #painting #grimartgroup

I’d encourage everyone to read this heart-breakingly beautiful piece by @jeffyoungwriter in today’s paper & then, if you haven’t already done so, buy a copy of ‘Wild Twin’ from Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Essential reading for place writers English at Manchester Met Manchester Writing School Centre for Place Writing

‘Chopping, Working, Thinking’: fascinatingly wide-ranging essay on life in a kitchen by former Manchester Writing School creative non-fiction MA student Joe Fenn This is the first post in Joe’s new food writing blog, ‘Panorama: The View from the Kitchen’ joefennwrites.wixsite.com/mysite/post/ch…

From the Edge of All Habitation... Four years since her last work, Autumn Richardson returns with a poetic sequence that vividly conjures time spent on a wild peninsula of the Irish southwest: corbelstonepress.com/correspondences

Just remembered that my first ever publications were in the much-missed, acerbic #LFC fanzine ‘Through the Wind & Rain’. I was so proud that I framed the articles & put them on my bedroom wall. Sadly, over a quarter of a century later, I haven’t got a clue what I wrote about.

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‘Each time I’ve been to Fingal’s Cave, the sense of natural magnitude dwarfing human endeavour has been inescapable. Turner’s painting amplified the feeling: a luminescent, natural arch opening into the unfathomable past’: Fiona Stafford on Staffa in ‘Time & Tide’.

First thing on campus Manchester Metropolitan Uni & looking forward to spending the day meeting our new Centre for Place Writing postgraduate researcher Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal 🇵🇸 & third-year English at Manchester Met Critical Project students.

Technology in the English Classroom! Latest issue of Newsletter, packed with teaching ideas & some provocations … thanks to co-editors Elizabeth Draper Also @draperel.bsky.social💛📚📕 Hollie BL 🌻🐝 (She/Her) #EnglishFE & contributors incl @JoePaulBarber Kate Whyles LearningTechFE Pamela Dale & Robert Eaglestone on OCR Policy Team #StrikingTheBalance report 💫

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