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The Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, under the directorship of Professor Blake Morrison, has been established to encourage new writing, to stimulate debate about literature and to create links between the different parts of the college where creative writing takes place – the Departments of Art, English & Comparative Literature, Media & Communications and Theatre & Performing Arts. The Centre will host a series of literary readings and discussions, with the first three of these (featuring the novelists James Kelman, Geoff Dyer and Ali Smith) taking place in the spring of 2013. Future plans will include conferences, master classes and residential courses, but the immediate focus will be on the Goldsmiths Prize and the events associated with it.
Following the success of a number of young poets and novelists who graduated from the MA and PhD creative writing programme in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, the creation of the Writers’ Centre confirms the college’s position as a hub of literary excellence.