Mass Observation 2016: Final thanks and wrapping up for this year

OK: that’s that! This year’s crop of Mass Observations are now all up on this blog, Peggy’s Blue Skylight, which is a unique record of a number of years of asking students to look with attention at the world around them (and the campus is a New World for all of them).

 

Here is a list of some events on this year which will enrich your writing coming soon:

 

Real Story First Year Trip – Saturday 22^nd October – Anthony Burgess Centre – Free trip for First Years

 

Andrew Michael Hurley - Wednesday 26^th October, 7.30, Arts Centre - £4.50

 

Simon Perril - Wednesday 16^th November 2016, 7.30, Arts Centre - £4.50

 

Maung Day Edge Hill University International Writer in Residence - Residency – 20^th November – 4^th December

 

Ekphrastic Poetry Reading and Workshop: Maung Day, Niall McDevitt and James Byrne at The Tate Liverpool - December 3rd 2016

 

Three leading international poets, Niall McDevitt (Ireland), Maung Day (Myanmar) and James Byrne (England) will participate in an ekphrastic response to the 'In Focus' Tate exhibition of William Blake and Tracey Emin. There will be a Creative Writing workshop between 1-3 in the Clore Learning Centre lead by Maung Day and James Byrne. Workshop writers will bring in up to 5 pages of work that somehow responds to the Tate Liverpool exhibition and receive editorial advice and writing exercises on how to respond to visual artwork. This will be followed by an evening reading with all three poets in the TEX venue. 

 

Free to Edge Hill Students - 1-3 (workshop), 4-5 (reading) to sign up for the workshop and/or reading email: byrnej@edgehill.ac.uk

 

Edge Hill University Press Event - Tuesday 22^nd November 2016, FREE but tickets must be booked – available to book from September 19th, Arts Centre

 

 

North West Camarade – various venues with poets in collaboration, through December and January, but culminating at Edge Hill University on 19^th January 2017

 

Michel Faber – Tuesday 7^th February 2017, 7.30pm Arts Centre – £4.50

 

The Robert Sheppard Symposium - Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, Wednesday 8^th March 2017 – FREE to Edge Hill University Students.

 

https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/creativewriting/events/sheppard-symposium/

 

This Symposium will explore the creative and critical writings of Professor Robert Sheppard, involving panel sessions throughout the day in M40/M41 and an evening reading at the Arts Centre at 7pm. Readers and panellists to include Allen Fisher, Zoe Skoulding, Scott Thurston and Robert Hampson. The Symposium and readings are both free but reservation is required: byrnej@edgehill.ac.uk