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Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition - a second year of success
The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre's second International Poetry Competition has been highly successful, receiving more entries from more poets than in 2015.
‘The Mindspace: an interactive play’ to be performed at Oxford Brookes
Following an immensely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, Oxford Brookes University drama partners and in-house theatre company, Re:Conception Theatre, will be bringing their play The Mindspace to Oxford.
Celebrating Shakespeare with a sonnet or two
This Friday (2 September) Oxford Brookes staff will be giving out free copies of Shakespeare’s sonnets in Oxford’s city centre.
Oxford Brookes academic to co-curate crowdfunded rural arts project
Simon Kövesi, Professor of English Literature in the Department of English and Modern Languages, is part of the team curating a major cultural event in the village of Wadhurst, East Sussex across summer 2017.
First Year Students receive Ede and Ravenscroft Prize
Five students from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences have received prizes for outstanding academic achievement in their first year of studies.
Oxford Brookes Academic Co-Curates Japanese Colour Cinema Retrospective
Dr Alexander Jacoby, senior lecturer for the undergraduate Japanese Studies programme, has co-curated the concluding instalment of a two-year programme of Japanese colour cinema at the Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in Bologna, Italy.
Leading Humanities and Social Sciences academics recognised in new research excellence awards
The Research Excellence Awards are a new initiative introduced by the University as part of Oxford Brookes’ commitment to supporting research-active academics.
English literature lecturer announced as editor for critical response series
Oxford Brookes University's very own Reader in Early Modern Literature, Dr Katharine Craik, is one of five series editors from across the UK and USA for Beyond Criticism, a series dedicated to formal experiments in critical response.
From Lord Mayor to MA Creative Writing student
Before enrolling as a part-time student on the MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes, Jim Campbell enjoyed a varied career; teaching English and History to high-school students in many countries, finally at the European School just outside Culham.
MA Creative Writing alumna's next two novels to be published in 2016 and 2017 by Bonnier Zaffre
Congratulations to Rachel Crowther, whose second novel, ‘Things You Do For Love', will be published in August this year – with her third novel (as yet untitled) scheduled for publication in August 2017.

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