Invitation for MA Creative Writing students

Eva Levin (Writing Development Manager from Spread the Word) will be holding a talk on Professional Development for Creative Writers.

The talk will be held on Friday 16 November at 10am in room A9 in the London Road building. 

If you'd like to go, email Karlien van den Beukel.

Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret, the debut novel by MA Creative Writing student Elsa Joseph, has just been published by Pen Press.

There's a feature on the LSBU website here, and you can buy the book online at Waterstones or Amazon.

Congratulations, Elsa!

Britain through a Lens: The Documentary Film Mob

BBC Four

The Below Doc about Doc's was on BBC This week You can still catch it on BBC iPlayer

Britain through a Lens: The Documentary Film Mob

A film telling the unlikely story of how, between 1929 and 1945, a group of tweed-wearing radicals and pin-striped bureaucrats created the British documentary genre.

BECTU Freelancers' Fair

The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) is holding a Freelancers' Fair on Friday 29 June at 2 Savoy Place, London WC2 (off the Embankment).


Full details of the event can be found here: http://www.bectu.org.uk/events/freelancers-fair

Screenworks — Practice Based Research site

For MA and PhD students interested in seeing how postgraduates around the UK are defining their practice-based research projects take a look at the latest edition of the Screenworks website produced in association with the Journal of Media Practice.

http://jmpscreenworks.com/?pid=vol3

In addition to students providing 1000 word rationales for their work, Screenworks includes comments from peer reviewers. Well worth a look. Patrick  

Rewire London: special offer

A special offer for MA students from one of our former guest speakers, Alison Coward:


Get the super-early bird rate for the @rewirelondon Unconference at Google Campus on 28 September -just £55 if you book before 30 June.  Enter the code ‘alison10’ at http://bit.ly/N9oGQM

Photography and Memory

Thanks to Dr Mairéad McClean for a fascinating seminar on Photography and Memory yesterday!


Here's the link to  Mairéad 's video work, as promised; and here's a link to the Irish Times piece on her recent Moving Lives project: .