The SI Leeds Literary Prize proudly announces Haleemah Alaydi as the recipient of the Space to Write Bursary, generously supported by Arvon. The bursary is designed to develop the craft and confidence of an unpublished female writer of colour in the UK.

Warm congratulations to Dr Daniel Matore on the publication of his first book, 'The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry'.

With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.

Congratulations to Adriana Murad Konings, a final year PhD student, whose debut novel Los Días Leves was published yesterday.

Warm congratulations to Professor Kevin Killeen on the publication of his most recent book, Ignorance and the Unknowable in Early Modernity Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable.

The WRoCAH competition for PhD studentships starting in October 2024 is now open!

Congratulations to Bryony Aitchison, a WRoCAH-funded PhD student who has published two books as part of her Research Exchange Project with The Modernist Society in Manchester.

Congratulations to Esther Okorocha whose short story "BACK OF HOUSE" has been shortlisted for the prestigious Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Short Story Prize.

A new exhibition 'Inspired by Italy' at Beningbrough Hall (an 18th century National Trust property just outside of York) features brilliant creative work from a number of students in the department.

The Department of English and Related Literature has placed 7th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 for the subject of English. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities we provide to our students.

Warm congratulations to Professor Jon Mee on the publication of his most recent book, Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution

Zara's book is an edited collection of short stories, poems and an essay, and will be published on Thursday 27th July 2023, by British Library Publishing.

Congratulations to Farzana A. Ghani who has been awarded a 2023 Northern Promise TLC Award at the Northern Writers Awards for her novel-in-progress, 'Song of the Bulbul'.

English at York is ranked 7th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2024).

Congratulations to Dr Antony Huen who is the runner-up for the inaugural Women Poetry Prize.

Congratulations to Fran Brooks, who has won the University English Book Prize for her monograph 'Poet of the Medieval Modern. Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones' (Oxford University Press).

We are delighted to announce that this year's Hive Young Writers' Competition has been a great success for the department!

Professor Elizabeth Tyler (Department of English and Related Literature/Centre for Medieval Studies) and Dr Pragya Vohra (Department of History/Centre for Medieval Studies) recently took part in the BBC podcast 'In Our Time' talking about Cnut.

English Language and Literature at York placed 11th in the UK and 35th in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2023).