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Hummingbird

14 June 2017

UK launch of fourth novel for Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Celebrating Britain, Canada and the Arts

13 June 2017

Cardiff University academic programmes international conference celebrating a modern era of cultural exchange

Fans cheering in football stadium

When fiction met football

23 May 2017

Extra time for Fiction Fiesta, celebrating football writing and the Latin American short story

Richard Gwyn, Director of Creative Writing

Viva Hay! Celebrating the best of Latin American literature at celebrated literary festival

18 May 2017

The best of contemporary Latin American poetry and two of the finest living Latin American writers will feature at this year’s Hay Festival, in events curated by the University’s Director of Creative Writing

Romantics Rebooted

28 April 2017

Enlightened thinking about 18th century and Romantic literature presented at special conference

Celebrating Edward Thomas

13 April 2017

Centenary of the death of one of the fathers of modern poetry

Creative writing postgraduate Joao Morais

New Welsh Writing Awards 2017

7 April 2017

Cardiff postgraduate student makes Novella Longlist

Academics celebrate book launch

28 March 2017

School of Welsh and School of English, Communication and Philosophy colleagues collaborate on new sociolinguistics book

In Dark Times: the importance of speech and resistance

24 March 2017

Hotly debated question posed at public Philosophy ‘Anti-Lecture’

Ideas of Wales at the Senedd

Ideas of Wales

20 March 2017

Cardiff University is taking a lead role in a new series debating the concept of the public sphere, and its condition in Wales at the Senedd.

Dr Dawn Knight

National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh

1 March 2017

Official launch for the largest representative collection of Welsh language

Man shouting through megaphone

Eliminating the shouting match

24 February 2017

How can we reduce arrogant behaviour in political debate and public discourse?

Learn Welsh in the Capital

We need your Welsh!

14 February 2017

Welsh speakers everywhere can contribute to a national language resource though new app

Philosophy and the Post-Truth World

12 January 2017

How study of Philosophy can help make sense of ‘Post-Truth’ world

Writer accepts award for Best Film, It's My Shout Awards 2016

Creative Writer graduate gets award for first film

4 January 2017

One year after completing the Creative Writing Masters, a Cardiff University graduate wins prestigious award for first short film.

Stocking fillers for scientific minds? BBC Science Café seeks perfect science holiday read

5 December 2016

Cardiff Philosopher shares ideas for inspirational science books in Science Cafe

Sycroax

Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

30 November 2016

New digital archive features more than 3,000 digitized illustrations from Shakespeare's complete works.

Book cover of latest Richard Gwyn book Ciudades y recuerdos

Viva The Other Tiger

23 November 2016

21st Century’s first bilingual Latin American poetry anthology launches in Mexico

US Election: Insurgence or collapse?

18 November 2016

US Election: Insurgence or collapse? Philosopher’s insight shakes up Twitter

New programmes launched for 2017

15 November 2016

Calling the next generation of wordsmiths and language experts: New programmes launched for 2017