Literature

Discover the city's emerging literary scene

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Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing

The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing based within the University’s English Department is vibrant, sociable and outward-looking, co-hosting regular events and readings .

Entropics

Entropics , a regular poetry series run by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing, hosts a popular series of readings in venues across Southampton.

Writers in Conversation

Discover what makes novelists tick at the intimate Writers in Conversation series presented by the English Department’s Creative Writing team and the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing.

Workshop your words

Develop your own writing at one of the Students’ Union’s student-run creative writing societies , or in a creative workshop run by Artful Scribe , an independent arts organisation.

Festival Fever

From the popular SO:To Speak festival in Southampton to the world-famous Writers’ Festival in Winchester , the literary season is covered by these annual events.

The Reading Revolution

October Books is Southampton’s local and radical bookshop. The shop hosts a wide range of events online, in store, and in their Community Space

Austen and Onwards

Visit Chawton House – the former home of Jane Austen’s brother - for a regular series of exhibitions, evening talks, and the chance to find out about Hampshire’s most famous literary export.

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