Writing, Poetry and Existentialism

After being made "redundant" from his long-standing academic position, acclaimed author Michael Stewart writes in The Telegraph & Argus how he has launched the Brontë Writing Centre in response to the ongoing crisis in higher education. This initiative aims to provide university-quality writing education at a fraction of the cost of traditional academic programs. The centre offers a range of services including residential courses, online classes, masterclasses, workshops, and mentorship for aspiring writers. Its flagship course, "How to Write a Novel and Get it Published," will be available both online and face-to-face in Haworth Collaborating with Costa award-winning writer Sairish Hussain, Stewart is leveraging his extensive experience to make expert creative writing instruction accessible to a wider audience outside the constraints of academia.

The face-to-face version will take place in Haworth - the home of the Brontës. This landscape has inspired some of the best-known novels in English Literature. If you are reading this, and are an aspiring novelist, perhaps this la
ndscape can inspire you.

The Telegraph & Argus too informs about some of the events at the upcoming Haworth Festival:

Wave of Nostalgia is then supporting Haworth Festival with three events towards the end of the month.

On Thursday, July 25, at 7pm, locally-based poet Ian Humphreys will lead a celebration of the relationship between the Brontës and the wild in a series of poems anthologised as No Net Ensnares Me. He and seven other contributors will perform work from the collection. (Alistair Shand)

The Guardian explores the power of brevity in the arts:

Or if existentialism is more your bag, consider L’Étranger (The Outsider), a 120-page dissection of blame and shame, which packs France’s colonial guilt into the shooting of an unnamed Arab man by the affectless protagonist Meursault. A survey of “watershed” novels for men and women in the UK revealed Albert Camus’s 20th-century classic to be the book most often mentioned by men as having helped to steer them through difficult times (for women, it was Jane Eyre).

Diario de Sevilla (Spain) lists period novels while waiting for season 3 of Bridgerton:

Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, narra la trágica historia de amor y venganza entre sus protagonistas, Heathcliff, el hijo adoptivo de la familia Earnshaw, y Catherine. Una novela intensa y llena emociones y romances imposibles. (Rachel Narbona Brave) (Translation)