The School of Humanities New Writing Festival is a celebration of the creative work of the students from the University of Westminster’s School of Humanities.
The Festival brings aspiring student writers into contact with published professionals. Each year, twelve students are picked to take part in the Festival – three prose fiction writers, three students interested in life-writing, three poets and three playwrights. From March to May, each is mentored by a professional writer and during the Festival itself on 17-28 May, students share their work at a series of readings.
We have a diverse student body here at the University and the Festival brings our student writers into contact with people whose work interrogates and investigates what diversity means. The event is also a way of offering a series of challenges – challenges to the classroom and the idea that’s solely where student learning takes place, and challenges to the histories and boundaries that are often tied up with, and in, higher education.
The mentors for 2021 are playwright Zia Ahmed, poet Raymond Antrobus, novelist Anna Beecher and journalist and broadcaster Kieran Yates.
As well as working one-on-one with their mentees during the two weeks of the Festival the mentors will each offer writing workshops for students from across the University. Sign up now to the writing workshops to enhance your creative writing skills.
In addition to the readings of student work and workshops, there will also be a series of panel discussions designed to help you think about creative landscape across London and beyond.
The Festival is directed by Dr Kate M. Graham and Dr Jennifer Fraser and supported by the Quintin Hogg Trust and the Students as Co-Creators project at the University of Westminster’s CETI.
Find out more about The School of Humanities New Writing Festival here.
