Welcome to Contemporary Cultures of Writing

Welcome to the Open University’s Contemporary Cultures of Writing research group. We are interested in all forms of creative and academic writing, and our outlook is interdisciplinary. Our membership comprises novelists, poets, dramatists and creative non-fiction writers, as well as academics and practitioners in Creative Writing, Literature, Linguistics, English Language, and Translation Studies. Our focus is on writing practices, their cultural contexts and impacts, and our activities include seminars, conferences, collaborative work, and publications.

Our past events have investigated wide-ranging subjects, including historical fiction, life writing, style, creativity and language, diversity in publishing, the rise of creative writing, and translation. Our past events contain a wealth of material from our previous events, including audio recordings of many of the presentations and discussions.

The group’s directors are Jennie Owen and Wanda O'Connor.