University
Creative Calendar
From the annual North London Literary Festival, to Writers in Discussion (our regular online series), to writing competitions, to our Creative Writing Masterclasses, there’s plenty to get your teeth into. Start chewing here!
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7-11 March 2022
Audience: all welcome, please book a place
Running since 1996, this student-led event celebrates all forms of storytelling via the hosting of a range of guest speakers (professional writers and leading media professionals) and practical workshops both online and on campus.
Contact: Dr Ariel Kahn
Audience: open to all, free
ONLINE - win a monthly prize for your writing! Contact: Scottish Book Trust
15-18 April 2022
Location: London Heathrow
Eastercons are fan-run British Science Fiction Convention events and have run most years since 1948. They begin on the Friday of the Easter weekend and finish on the Monday, with a variety of panels, talks, workshops, Kaffeeklatsches (small group chats with an author), book readings, quizzes, gaming, filking (sci-fi sing-alongs) and much, much more.
Read more here.
4-8 July 2022
Audience: MDX students
Location: Hendon.
Audience: all welcome
Location: on Zoom
Alumna Jodie Hammond will be coming to tell us what doing a Creative Writing MA entails. And there will be a presentation on how and why to think about pursuing a PhD.
Contact Dr Adam Dalton
Audience: MDX only
ONLINE - invited students, and those wishing to sign up, will be offered x4 writing masterclasses to get them up to speed on characterization, writing immersive description, and controlling narrative perspective!
Contact: Aleksandra Stawirej
11.00 - 13.00
Audience: all welcome
Location: on Campus, W155
British screenwriter Matt White will be providing a presentation and masterclass in which he reveals the arcane secrets to his success!
Contact Mark Kirkbride
14-17 Jan 2022
Audience: all welcome, tickets required
Location: The Bailey's Hotel
London job fair attracts international schools of all kinds and worldwide - including British, American and IB schools - so it is suitable for a wide range of teachers, in all subject fields and at all levels. It is attracting a very wide range of schools and candidates.
More information here.
11.00 - 13.00
Audience: all welcome, please book
Location: on campus, room W155
British poet Kate Potts will be providing a presentation and masterclass in which she reveals the precious secrets to her success!
Contact Mark Kirkbride
Audience: open to all, free
The Middlesex University 500-word writing competition on the theme of 'communities of the future'. More info here.
22 Apr-21 Aug 2022
A journalism-related exhibition taking place at the British Library, with more info and prices here.
1-2 April 2022
If you have a novella (speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi or horror) of 20-40K words which tackles themes related to diversity, Luna Press are inviting submissions!
For further info click here.