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  • Bath Spa hosts launch of international magazine Granta

    Bath Spa University is proud to support the launch of the latest issue of Granta Magazine at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on Thursday 15 November. ‘Granta 121: Best of the Young Brazilian Novelists’ features work by Carola Saavedra and Vinicius Jatobá. …
  • Adelaide Link

    Professor James Saunders and Dr Steve May took part in a live link up with the J M Coetzee Centre in Adelaide this week.  The subject of the symposium was “John Cage and Angela Carter in Bath”, and also featured Maggie Tonkin, Rosemary Moore and Stephen Whittington from Adelaide.& …
  • Bath Spa PhD student shortlisted for prestigious T.S.Eliot Prize

    Sean Borodale, a PhD Creative Writing student at Bath Spa University has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S.Eliot Prize, one of the most important poetry prizes in the UK. Sean has been shortlisted for his first collection of poems ‘Bee Journal’, a poem journal which tells the …
  • PhD Student Shortlisted for Major Award

    PhD Creative Writing student Sean Borodale's Bee Journal has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Professor David Harsent comments: "The T.S.Eliot Prize is considered one of the most prestigious awards for poetry - not just in the UK, but internationally. Sean Borodale's shortlisting is more …
  • More Success for Kylie

      Kylie Fitzpatrick publishes her third novel this week. The Silver Thread tells the story of a young woman on board a prison ship bound for Australia. ​   The novel was inspired by the Rajah Quilt, a patchwork quilt created by women prisoners to pass the time as their …
  • Shortlist

    Congratulations go to MA in Writing for Young People graduate Sally Nicholls, shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Week Book Award (Children's Books category) for her latest novel, All Fall Down (Marion Lloyd Books). Full details are on the Booksellers' Association website: http:// …
  • Auction

    After an auction organised by literary agent Will Francis, Chatto & Windus won the rights to publish Cold Blood, lecturer Richard Kerridge's memoir / natural history of British reptiles and amphibians.