
Centre for Place Writing
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Creative-critical research centre @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl exploring place & its meanings. Co-directed by @DrDavidCooper & @RachelLichtenst
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If you missed Helen at Kendal Mountain Festival recently, you can catch her on BBC Countryfile this Sunday at 6pm, when she'll be talking about Ethel Haythornthwaite.

'We Are Butterflies Forever In Flight' is a stunning new poetry film by one of this year's Manchester Multilingual City Poets, Anjum Malik Anjum Malik "This migration forced, it did not phase our creativity, brilliance" Watch in full here: youtube.com/watch?v=SP2o3D…

Join us for a very special evening presented by Manchester Metropolitan Uni for #GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with our Monique Roffey. Jason will be reading from and talking about his first non-fiction book, "The Possibility of Tenderness". Ticket link in comments.


An article co-authored by Manchester Metropolitan Uni Centre for Place Writing Reader in Place Writing Rachel Lichtenstein and colleagues at UCL about their Memory Map projects has been published in the International Journal of Jewish Studies: brill.com/view/journals/…

Strandlines and storytelling… Louise Kenward with lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing. Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' is published in paperback today. bps.org.uk/psychologist/s…




Louise Kenward, a postgraduate researcher Centre for Place Writing Manchester Metropolitan Uni has written a new article, 'Strandlines and Storytelling', for @psychologist. The piece considers lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing. bps.org.uk/psychologist/s…


Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. The Long Nineteenth-Century Network Manchester Metropolitan Uni eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnationa…

🇺🇸 A speculative documentary Manchester Metropolitan Uni Lecturer Reuben Martens helped write premiered last month at UCLA. Grand Theft Eco, a machinima series and pedagogical engine, repurposes the game Grand Theft Auto to explore eco-futures of LA in the year 2050. ioes.ucla.edu/article/ucla-s…

“Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability” - an anthology of new writing edited by Manchester Metropolitan Uni Centre for Place Writing postgraduate researcher Louise Kenward for Footnote Press Press - is out now in paperback. footnotepress.com/books/moving-m…


Next week affiliate member of the Centre for Place Writing, Dr Lara Williams, is in conversation with Alex Allison and Curtis Garner at BlackwellsManchester

As part of Manchester Translation Series 2025, poet Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal 🇵🇸 chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin & our Editor Sana Goyal Kotecha at @Mcrpoetrylib on the role of translation in expanding literary landscapes. 18 March, 1-2.30pm GMT Tickets: Free mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library…
