Sunday 03 April
Registration
Opening Session
Drinks reception
Dinner
Monday 04 April
Welcome and introductions
Hooray Henry?: big traditions and small canons
Ron Carter and John McRae
Group Work: session 1
Strand 1
Ron Carter
Strand 2
John McRae
Stories within stories within stories
Ali Smith and Claudia Ferradas Moi
Participant presentations/Reading groups
ReadingPatience Agbabi
Tuesday 05 April
Pages and Stages
Patience Agbabi and Ali Smith
Group Work: session 2
Strand 1
Finding Voices
Alan Pulverness and Patience Agbabi
Strand 2
Instructions to read blank cards: Ali Smith’s short stories in the classroom
Claudia Ferradas Moi and Ali Smith
Reception at Blackwell’s Bookshop
Wednesday 06 April
Participant presentations/Reading groups
Books and MAN Bookers
Valentine Cunningham, Martyn Goff and John McRae
Something of the Dark
Colm Toíbín and John McRae
Group work: session 3 on Colm Toíbín’s work
Reading by Colm Toíbín
Thursday 07 April
Fiction and the Reading Publics
Peter Childs and Sean Matthews
Group work: session 4
Walking tour of literary Oxford
Presentation of resources and project planning
Friday 08 April
Non-standard: the academy in the poet, the poet in the academy
W N Herbert and John McRae
Creative writing workshops
W N Herbert and John McRae
Grub Street and the Ivory Tower (Elephants too are dying)
D J Taylor and Sean Matthews
Reading groups
Guest Reading: Margaret Drabble
Saturday 09 April
Closing plenary session
Checkout and departure
The event closes after lunch on Saturday 09 April.
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