‘After a while most of us find we’re doing the same stuff; I tried new things.’
Listen to my interview with poet Geoff Hattersley for the Royal Literary Fund, in which I talk about my life as a poet, publisher and editor.
Category Archives: Careers
Great Lives series: University of Lincoln, October 2017.
The University’s Great Lives series continues this week with lectures by Tom Heap and Sir Mark Walport.
The series, featuring high profile speakers, aims to give an insight into the achievements of leading influential figures and recognisable faces from backgrounds such as the arts, business and economics, politics, health and science as well as bringing more local leading Lecturers and Visiting Professors to the fore.
Staff and students are encouraged to attend.
Booking is advised, but there may also be tickets available on the door. Please follow the links below for more information.
Tom Heap
Tuesday 17th October, 5.30pm for a 6.00pm Lecture
Jackson Lecture Theatre, Minerva Building
TV presenter Tom Heap is a freelance broadcaster and journalist with a passionate concern for rural affairs, science and the environment. Tom presents the investigations on Countryfile – Britain’s most popular factual TV programme.
http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/tom-heap.html
Sir Mark Walport
Thursday 19th October, 11.00am for a 11.30pm Lecture
Isaac Newton Lecture Theatre, Isaac Newton Building
Recently appointed Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation, Sir Mark Walport has long been a champion for science, engineering and technology within his career including his role as Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Head of the Government Office for Science and Co-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.
http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/mark-walport.html
All future Great Lives events can be found listed on the University website:http://lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/
Postgraduate Welcome Week #UniversityOfLincoln
Some of my poems plus an article in The Blue Nib Magazine
The current issue of The Blue Nib poetry magazine (edited by one of our former MA Creative Writing grads) contains some of my poems and an article about how I came to write a poem a day for four years.
Go to The Blue Nib magazine.
Something every Humanities student should bear in mind.
Listen to Toronto Prof, Jordan Peterson. What he says is absolutely true (including the criticisms of current liberal arts/humanities teaching). And watch as many of his videos on YouTube as you can.
Creative Writing MA grad, Nick, sets up his own online business.
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Nick Beaumont (graduated 2011), has launched his own online business, NPcontent, specialising in content production, SEO-enhancement and advertising copy. Having spent two years in China, Nick is also able to help businesses who are planning to work there.
Take a look at NBcontent.
Fay Weldon speaks up for creative writing.
I would like to see a new discipline, called simply Literacy, taught in our universities and schools, so that the current outpouring of muddy texts can be replaced by a flow of elegant, informative and crystal-clear information – to the benefit of our national pride and dignity. In the meanwhile employers should note that an employee with a qualification in creative writing can be trusted not just to write simply and well, but to be empathic (the fiction writer spends a lot of time pretending to be other people) so is less likely to write tactless emails and cause a scandal unless intentionally. Creative writing is a degree in the effective management of words and emotion and an understanding of how they relate, and yes, it can be taught. And if I might add, should be.
Source: Fay Weldon in Times Higher Education.
The Neville Prize for aspiring playwrights.
Have your short story turned into a play.
Details of The Neville Prize at Nottingham Playhouse.
Paid internships at Penguin.
If you fancy a ten week paid internship in Digital Sales, Editorial or Communications with Penguin publishing, this summer 2013, then click below for more details. The deadline is 15 February.
Thanks to LSM Alumni blog for this.