Past Events

2025

• Writing Place conference, IES London, April 2025
• Neurodivergence and Creative Writing: three conversations
• Creating Worlds, real and imagined: Place Writing in creative prose. May 2025, 09:45 - 16:30, Bloomsbury Room G35 Senate House, London

2024

• In collaboration with MK Lit Fest: 'The Long and the Short of It: from flash fiction to the doorstep novel' 
  novel' full details of events here:  https://www.mklitfest.org/online-events-2024 

2023 

• Other Worlds: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poetry, IES London, May 2023
• Writing place: what haunts the landscape of modern Britain? A creative writing conference, April 2023

2022

• Neuroscience and Narrative
• Ekphrasis, creating space for art and literature

2021

• Climate Change and Creativity             

2021               

• The Personal as Political

2020               

• Multimodal Writing Workshop

2019

• Life Stories
• Voices from the Past: Peterloo and New Historical Fiction Conference

2018

• Diverse Voices: Creative Writing Today
• Key Creative Writing Issues 

2017

• Creativity, Language, and Creative Writing
• Art and Writing
• The Rise of the Detective Novel

2016                

• Creative nonfiction: debates and directions

2015

• Creative Writing Research: an investigation
• Styles of Writing, Styles of Thought: What do we mean when we talk about style
• Bridging the Gap: stories and histories in translation

2014                

• The Short Story in the 21^st Century
• New Historical Fiction in the 21^st Century
• Stories in Translation: translating the untranslatable 

2013

• Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing
• Writing Funny: language, creativity and comedy

2012

• The Rise of Creative Writing
• Life Writing: borderlands between fact and fiction