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News

York alumnus wins prestigious essay prize

Posted on Thursday 1 June 2023

Congratulations to Dr Antony Huen who is the runner-up for the inaugural Women Poetry Prize.

Fran Brooks wins University English Book Prize

Posted on Wednesday 17 May 2023

Congratulations to Fran Brooks, who has won the University English Book Prize for her monograph 'Poet of the Medieval Modern. Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones' (Oxford University Press).

Hive Young Writers' Competition Results - and congratulations!

Posted on Thursday 20 April 2023

We are delighted to announce that this year's Hive Young Writers' Competition has been a great success for the department!

Cnut - BBC 'In Our Time'

Posted on Friday 7 April 2023

Professor Elizabeth Tyler (Department of English and Related Literature/Centre for Medieval Studies) and Dr Pragya Vohra (Department of History/Centre for Medieval Studies) recently took part in the BBC podcast 'In Our Time' talking about Cnut.

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Forthcoming events

Tue

Jun

Water Poetics: Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans

Award-winning Bristol-based poets Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans will read and talk about their work, chaired by expert in tidalectics Christ Astwood.

Wed

Jun

Happy Days in the Anthropocene

Join us for the Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex).

Wed

Jun

Erasmus’s Nose

Professor Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge) will be leading this engaging talk.

Wed

Jun

Festival of Ideas: Preti Taneja in conversation with Juliana Mensah

Join Preti Taneja - writer, educator, activist and Professor of Worid Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University - in conversation with Juliana Mensah, writer and University of York lecturer.

Tue

Jun

The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell

Join writer Richard Smyth for a reading and discussion of his memoir, 'The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell'.

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