The objectives of the seminar will be to document initiatives within the HEI’s Creative Writing Department and other initiatives taking place across Creative Writing departments in the HE sector which involve students and teachers working in partnership to produce publication, performance and networking opportunities.

We will document these initiatives by inviting representatives from other departments across the country to attend the seminar and either briefly present their activities through the informal Show and Tell aspect of the seminar, where a range of specific student-teacher partnership initiatives will be briefly introduced, followed by more lengthy informal discussion; or to critically engage with them through longer Paper Presentations. The key outputs of this seminar will be a report (‘activity document’) that documents these initiatives and an online archive of papers presented.

We aim for students and teachers to be equally represented in the seminar, and, with this in mind, the HEI will provide any interested students with an editing service (via email) offering advice on papers intended for submission.

Programme:

***All events in MY120 except visiting speaker in MR57***

9:30 – 10:00 Arrival and registration/coffee & tea

10:00 – 12:00 Welcome, HEA talk, Local Industry Speakers

Georgia Munnion, Creative Projects Manager,

Northampton Royal & Derngate Theatre

&

Catherine Hemelryk, Artistic Director,

NN Contemporary Art.

12:00 – 13:00 Visiting Speaker MR57 – Mark Cocker

Mark Cocker is a British author and naturalist whose eight books have dealt with modern responses to the wild, whether found in landscape, human societies or in other species.

13:00 – 14:00 Buffet Lunch

Networking opportunities; engagement with Project posters (showing examples of the HEI’s initiatives to deliver international excellence in our learning, teaching and scholarship activities and all-round student experience).

14:00 – 15:00 Show & Tell

(5 minute introductions; 10 minutes informal discussion). Accounts of specific student initiatives.

14.00 – Samantha Knight (Creative Writing, 2nd Year) on her participation in Creative Writing workshops at Northampton Library.

14.15 – Gemma Copping (Creative Writing & Drama, 2nd Year) on her participation in Soho Theatre Writers’ group.

14.30 – Todd Murphy (Creative Writing alumnus, 2012) on sustaining Creative Writing projects after university.

14.45 – Stevan Mijailovic (Drama alumnus, 2012) on the writing process of his play taken to Edinburgh Festival and about to tour.

15.00 – 16.00 Summation

Closing remarks by Dr Charles Bennett & consolidation of discussions to guide the ‘activity document’ through relevant feedback.

This event is free to attend

To book onto this event please download and complete the booking form in the top right-hand corner and return it to seminar.series@heacademy.ac.uk

Further details here