Philippa Johnson, a PhD student and poet, invites us on a life-giving route through impostor syndrome I had often admired those folk who stood at […]
Category: Creative writing
‘We have brilliant students doing fantastic things…’
This week we hear from Tomi Adesina, a PhD candidate in Creative Writing, about her productive blend of creative and corporate writing Tomi, for the […]
Exclamat!on: a field guide to producing a postgraduate journal (part 1)
“To produce a sentence, let alone a whole article, in which ‘every word is unalterable’ is a daunting quest, especially for the emerging author. To […]
PGR 3-Day Residential Writing Retreat (Buckfast Abbey)
As part of Exeter Writes Initiative, we are offering a 3 day PGR writing retreat at Buckfast Abbey this summer from 22nd-25th July. This is a dedicated space […]
Playing in the tides: research culture from a PGR perspective
It is a strange life, being a postgraduate research student, especially in those subjects which do not involve regular lab work or other collective activities. […]
Layers of practice: writing a PhD alongside a public writing life
Fiona Williams is a second year PhD in Creative Writing. Her debut novel The House of Broken Bricks was published by Faber in January 2024. […]