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School of English

Postgraduate Activities

The postgraduate community in the School of English at Bangor is a lively, enthusiastic one, and, over the years, students have engaged in a variety of activities.

The following activities are ongoing at present

The Dovetail: Postgraduate Online Literary Journal

The Dovetail is an online literary journal for postgraduate students. It is now accepting submissions, both critical and creative, for its inaugural issue. The submission guidelines can be accessed here (http://the-dovetail.wikispaces.com/Submission+guidelines), and will appear soon on the journal website (http://the-dovetail.bangor.ac.uk). The journal team is also looking for new members, and welcomes postgraduate students from the School of English to get involved with the project. All submissions and enquiries are to be emailed to the-dovetail@bangor.ac.uk.

Posted: 10/01/11

Medievalism Transformed

This is an annual postgraduate conference in medieval studies and medievalism, initiated by Bangor English students, which started in 2005. To date the conference has brought together energetic students and their initiatives from across periods and themes in English literature, but also in other disciplines. For more details, see the website at http://medievalismtransformed.bangor.ac.uk//

Palaeography and codicology training (medieval manuscripts).

Postgraduates have  been stimulated by the training in palaeography and codicology organised at Bangor, and their response to this has taken the form of organising workshops, either as part of the postgraduate conference (see the 2008 conference on Education) or independently. See the website at http://palaeography_training.bangor.ac.uk//index.php

Staff and Postgraduate Writing Workshop

This regular informal writing workshop enables staff and postgraduate creative writers to share and comment on new work, and to explore aspects of what it means to write in a research context. It is chaired by Dr Zoe Skoulding.

Poetry Readings

Poetry readings are held regularly, bringing many new and prominent writers to Bangor. Wendy Mulford (UK), Erin Moure (Canada), Simon Smith (UK), Michael Symmons Roberts (UK), Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand (USA), Philip Gross (UK), Petr Borkovec (Czech Republic) and Justin Quinn (Ireland) have been among recent visiting poets.