Centre for New Writing

As lovers of the arts and occupants of the building named for his father, we thank Richard Attenborough for an extraordinary lifetime. RIP.

Thanks to all who attended the launch for edition 2 of The New Luciad, particularly the authors who shared their wonderful work. We'll have photos for the event up soon.

Have you been keeping up with ? Our collaboration with Click; Connect; Curate and Harborough Museum has sparked some wonderful creative work so far. Via the Sole2Soul Tumblr, here's a wonderful poem by Jon Wilkins.

William Falkner: Shoemaker of Market Harborough, by Jon Wilkins Our first poem on Tumblr, with a short introduction by the poet. Picture: 2MHM-7726 by Kev Ryan I spent a really enjoyable afternoon at the newly opened Market Harborough Museum. It’s a...

Our Dalit Literature Symposium is TODAY! Free to the public, world-renowned speakers, 4pm in the Scholar, Students' Union, University of Leicester.

A Symposium on Dalit Literature

Thank you to Dr Michael Bucknor for presenting to us an utterly incredible paper, full of amazingly detailed, intersectional deconstruction. And thanks also to everyone who came along and got involved in an incisive and engaging Q&A session, too!

We're sorry to say that we won't be able to provide an audio recording of tonight's event, but we will be keeping you posted on publication details of Dr Bucknor's paper.

Mere hours til Michael Bucknor joins us for his guest lecture (5:30pm, room 001 of the Attenborough Seminar Block)! Let us know if you're coming along. If you can't make it, you can follow our live coverage on Twitter () and join in the conversation using the hashtag .

Update: As some of you will no doubt be aware, the University's IT services are down due to major network issues. We'll still do our best to bring you live coverage of the event tonight, but it may rely on our phone signal extending into the Seminar room!

Tomorrow evening, Michael Bucknor gives his guest lecture 'Performing Masculinities in Global Black Diasporas: Romantic Gender Revolutions and Jamaican Popular Culture'. As ever, it's free to students, staff and the public. Join us in room 001 of the Attenborough Seminar Block at 5:30pm.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/creativewriting/centre/events

Another Centre event, another evening of cutting-edge creative and critical discourse. Thank you John Schad for a stunning performance (helped out by our directors Corinne and Harry) and an illuminating, insightful Q&A. The audio of the event will be online ASAP.

RIP Maya Angelou. As writers and humans, we are indebted to you.

Just two more days until John Schad joins us at the University (David Wilson Library Seminar Room, 4:30pm on Thursday, be there!). To keep yourself occupied until then, check out our archive of sound recordings from some of ours and Literary Leicester's previous events.

Sound Archive — University of Leicester The Centre has a range of audio recordings created during its events.

Next Thursday (29th), we welcome creative-critical writing pioneer John Schad to the University of Leicester. 4:30pm, David Wilson Library Seminar Room, absolutely FREE to the public. Come along!

Forthcoming events — University of Leicester The Centre for New Writing aims to provide free access to writers at the cutting edge of craft. See below for our upcoming and previous events.

Right folks, sorry for the downtime, but your Centre is back in action TONIGHT! Come and join us as we welcome legendary satirist Jonathan Coe for our third annual Creative Writing Lecture! Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 2 (next to the Percy Gee Student Union building), 6pm. We hope to see lots of you there.