Join us in person or you can watch online - pick your preferred ticket at checkout! Open University English & Creative Writing OU Arts & Social Sciences Catherine Menon Naomi Wood Irenosen Okojie Emma Claire Sweeney MK Libraries

“In some ways I am back to where I was when I first returned to London from Venezuela in December 1979 with a suitcase full of unpublished manuscripts”
I wrote about Lisa St Aubin de Terán's sixth memoir & extraordinary life in this week's The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/bette…

After a fantastic opening night at MK Lit Fest, excitement is still building for what’s to come! There are still spots available for Julia Bell’s ‘Structuring Life’ workshop and Leigh Russell’s ‘Finding the Plot’ workshop!

Secure your tickets today at mklitfest.org/events-for-wri…

Guys if your kids are too much this Easter holiday then help is on the way with this host of charmingly toxic mothers! 💧This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is OUT TODAY 💧

Delighted to be able to show you the new UK version of Jane Austen, the Secret Radical! Available this July, with a foreword by one of the loveliest of Janeites, Gill Hornby

Design is by anna morrison who also did the stunning UK The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens cover.

There are still a few remaining spaces in the Workshops for Writers this Friday!
Whether you're drawn to memoir or fiction, now is the perfect time to hone your skills alongside talented writers Julia Bell and Leigh Russell.
Grab your tickets at: mklitfest.org/events-for-wri…

🎥Siobhán Campbell (Siobhan Campbell) performs 'When All This Is Over' in The Irish Cultural Centre's film poem series with Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, thanks to Seren. OU Arts & Social Sciences The OU in Northern Ireland Irish Literary Society. Watch: 'When all this is over' m.youtube.com/watch?v=is7MXB…

Some ideas work best as flashes, others as short stories, novellas or novels. How to decide?
Sat 6 April, we ask writers known for both shorter and longer works. Join them in #MiltonKeynes Central Library or online.
Tickets: mklitfest.org/thinking-writi…
Open University English & Creative Writing #creativewriting

Thank you to our friends at Pooleyville for publishing this tremendous history of all we do.

MK Lit Fest: seven fabulous years of books, words, writers and ideas! - The City Mag for Milton Keynes—pooleyville.city/articles/mk-li…

#miltonkeynes #books #literature #reading

- Four Chancellors and A Funeral with Russ Jones, author of #thedecadeinttory
- Thinking and Writing Short and Long: exploring #flashfiction #shortstories #novellas + #novels with Naomi Wood Catherine Menon Irenosen Okojie
Emma Claire Sweeney

Tickets mklitfest.org/online-events-…

I’ll be there. Will you?

Thanks! Even though we won a massive legal case against the University and now have 'employee' status, our work cut again. Plus University of Oxford claiming our win is only relevant to us personally - although that isn't really the case. Wishing you courage in ugly times #ucurising

Really looking forward to this later today. Do sign up and come along.

Love Literature? Free Saturday 6th April?
Come on down to the MK Lit Fest Spring Festival with a (bargain) Saturday Day Ticket, to enjoy all the amazing events hosted by the incredible authors joining us!
For more information & tickets: tickettailor.com/events/miltonk…

#MiltonKeynes

Join us for the grand finale.

Many congratulations to all the exceptional writers and scholars on our book prize short-list
Noreen Masud Doug Battersby
Robert Stagg Natalie Ferris
Alison Knight
We're delighted to announce that the prize this year goes to Noreen's Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language

In Women's History month, it was great to talk with Kay Burley on @skynews about fascinating & inspiring women of the past, including some of those who feature in my latest book, Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice.

How brilliant to catch Emily Midorikawa talking about enterprising women with Kay Burley on Sky News to celebrate Women’s History Month. Great to hear a shout out for Charlotte Brontë, who we have to thank for galvanising her sisters to publish too!

It would be lovely to see some of you here, in person or online. What a treat to call this work. Open University English & Creative Writing OU Arts & Social Sciences MK Lit Fest MK Libraries

Honoured to be curating this MK Lit Fest series for Open University English & Creative Writing: The Long & Short of It: From flash fiction to the doorstop novel. Join Electra Rhodes - writes a bit/archaeologises a bit & Jupiter Jones at 7.30pm tonight to kick it all off with a conversation on flash. Free/£WhatYouCan: mklitfest.org/long-and-short…