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MAPS are truly delighted and relieved to announce that our *twice* postponed symposium is now definitely going ahead! Tuesday 18th April. Book your place here. eventbrite.co.uk/e/testimony-an… @MMUEnglishDept
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We are very pleased to announce a new date for Testimony and the Postcolonial: A Symposium Now on Wednesday 9th November 12.30-5pm. Grosvenor East Building 4.04, All Saints, Manchester Metropolitan University. eventbrite.co.uk/e/testimony-an…
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We are excited to be partnering with our neighbour @ContactMcr just along Oxford Road for the More Fiya event tmw night 22 Oct 7pm. Six poets read from a scorching anthology that brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets with @McrLitFest and @McrPoetryLib
We are excited to be partnering with our neighbour @ContactMcr just along Oxford Road for the More Fiya event tmw night 22 Oct 7pm. Six poets read from a scorching anthology that brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets with @McrLitFest and @McrPoetryLib
Congratulations to Shehan Karunatilaka @ShehanKaru on this wonderful news!
Congratulations to Shehan Karunatilaka @ShehanKaru on this wonderful news!
We are delighted to announce that MAPS director Professor Minoli Salgado will give her inaugural lecture next Thursday 20th October 5:30-7:00pm. Unsettling Truths: The Migrant Writer as Creative Witness. Register your attendance below. eventbrite.com/e/430756533387
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Manchester Poetry Library are hosting the North West launch of Words of Colour’s My Words, an exciting new digital exhibition spotlighting the cultural contribution of poets of colour in Britain over 250 years. 14 Sept, 6pm. Book your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-words-the…
Congratulations Monique! @moniqueroffey
Congratulations Monique! @moniqueroffey
Congratulations Malika! @Malikabooker
Congratulations Malika! @Malikabooker
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📢 CALL FOR REVIEWERS: the Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, the bi-annual journal of @SFPS_UK is looking for academics at all career stages, but especially ECAs,who haven’t published with us before, to review new books that have recently been published 👇🏽
This Friday at 7pm you can hear our Prof Minoli Salgado discussing her book in Brighton. Book your ticket here. @McrWritingSchl @MMUEnglishDept eventbrite.co.uk/e/twelve-cries…
Looking forward to this wonderful event tonight @McrPoetryLib where @anaffissahely will be reading from his collection High Desert.
Looking forward to this wonderful event tonight @McrPoetryLib where @anaffissahely will be reading from his collection High Desert.
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We are pleased to inform that the final schedule of our June 2022 conference, "Imposition of Power: Quest for Identity" (ONLINE), is now out in the world!! Please register to secure your place at this amazing intersectional international conference -- surl.li/ccrta 🤩🤩
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"The librarian is a radical on our high street. The librarian is connected to the community. Information is power and that's what a librarian is doing every day of their lives. I think of librarians as a very important symbol of democracy" - @lemnsissay, #FestivalofLibraries 🎉
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Wonderful to hear from @AMcMillanPoet tonight from @McrPoetryLib as we hear poems from brand new collection #100QueerPoems for the #FestivalofLibraries. "Libraries provide a space to enter into a conversation about words and ideas" - @Becky_Swain
An indispensable read: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, special issue of Transition Magazine
An indispensable read: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, special issue of Transition Magazine
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Making Artistic Sense or Trauma - our Professor of International Writing Minoli Salgado is taking part in this event @KingsCollegeLon next week. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-artis…
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from @anaffissahely later this month @McrPoetryLib and to hear him read from High Desert.
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from @anaffissahely later this month @McrPoetryLib and to hear him read from High Desert.
Prof. Minoli Salgado will be speaking at ‘Making Artistic sense of Trauma’, repeaterbooks.com/meetup-event/m… at King’s College London on 14th June at 6.30 pm
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