What We're Reading - Lockdown Bank Holiday Edition
Our Literature team share their recent reads during lockdown, and recommendations for the coming bank holiday weekend.
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These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.
Hay Festival Digital
The British Council are thrilled to announce that we’re supporting a specially selected programme of events at the 2020 Hay Festival Digital
Poems on the Underground goes online
As many of us are staying at home for the duration of the Covid-19 virus outbreak, we've been missing our Poems on the Underground. Fortunately, the poems have gone digital, as Judith Chernaik explains
Literature on Lockdown 4: #CultureConnectsUs
This week Literature on Lockdown thinks of spring and looks at how organisations from around the literary world are responding differently to the challenges of lockdown.
Literature on Lockdown 3: #CultureConnectsUs
In our third edition of Literature On Lockdown, we have gathered stories, craft projects, podcasts and online events that will keep you in conversation with world literature.
Literature on Lockdown 2: #CultureConnectsUs
The second edition of the British Council Literature team's Literature on Lockdown blog is here! We're offering an overview of the literature scene during the pandemic, with suggestions for things you can read, participate in, and discover while in lockdown.
Literature on Lockdown: #CultureConnectsUs
The British Council Literature team launches our new blog series Literature on Lockdown: #CultureConnectsUs, offering an overview of the literature scene during the pandemic.
What We're Reading – special edition
The literature team share their recommendations for lock-down reading.
Covid-19 Update
In the light of Covid-19, we wanted to let you know what you can expect from the British Council's literature team in the coming months.
Making a living as a comic book artist
Comics creator and scholar Dr. Nicola Streeten shares her journey into comics and graphic novels, and offers tips on how to find your own way in
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