Languages and Literature, University of Leicester
Thesis title:
Published short stories
'Honour' - The Bookends Review 2023 (September 2023)
'I'll Show you a Villain' - Little Book of Fairy Tales, Dancing Bear Books, 2019 (November 2019)
'The Next Dawn' - Litro Magazine 2019 (April 2019)
'Alraqs' - Post-mortem Press 2019 (February 2019)
'Alraqs' - The New Luciad 2018 (June 2018)
'Silence' - The New Luciad 2018 (June 2018)
'Ruhi' - Litro Magazine 2017 (October 2017)
HFRN Historical Fictions Research Annual Conference 2024 - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (February 2024)
PAMLA Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (October 2023)
M4C Research Festival - A Thousand and One Nights meets Morocco's fight for independence in a historical fantasy: Using well-known 'classic' stories to retell lesser-known historical narratives in Young Adult novels to decolonise previously established western historical narratives (October 2023)
Books in the Closet: Suppression, Censorship and the Book - In demand by fools and lowly ignoramuses': Arabic popular epics and Young Adult fiction (June 2022)
Registrar for The Hidden in Performance, Virtual and Literary Culture (September 2021)
M4C Research Festival - Reading from PhD novel The Storyteller (working title) (June 2021)
June 2021 - ongoing Tutor for The Brilliant Club's 'The Scholar's Programme'
December 2023 - Masterclass at the University of Leicester - An Excercise in Worldbuilding: A Thousand and One Nights Meets 1950s Morocco in a YA Fantasy in the MA in Creative Writing
November 2023 - Guest Lecturer at Leeds Arts University - Inspiration, Resonances and Motivations workshop in the module on 'Poetics and Process'
October 2023 - Guest Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University - Inspirations, Resonances and Motivations workshop in the course 'Writing for Children and Young Adults'
Angela Carter
Feminist studies association
NAWE
PAMLA - Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
Bath Children's Novel Award - Longlisted