WRITING THE GOTHICThis writing course offers six two-hour workshops from March to September, learning the craft of gothic fiction from author and Gothic PhD candidate Bronte Schiltz. Participants on this course will create up to three short stories (up to 5k words) over the duration of this course. Your best story will be published in a […]

, Wednesday 2 April, 12-5 pm Our friends The North West Long Nineteenth Century Network are a group of Man Met scholars and postgraduates that share interests and collaborate with Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies on aspects and topics of Victorian Gothic. Join them for the next North West Long Nineteenth Century research seminar on the topic […]

This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation toNeolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a shortpresentation (15 minutes) or a longer presentation/paper (25 minutes) on the themes ofmateriality, mythology, aDect and temporality. Ritual/sacred stone structures, such as henges, dolmens and cairns of the Neolithicand Mesolithic era have […]

Free public lecture on seminal 1790s Gothic writer, Ann Radcliffe, by Dr. Deborah Russell (university of York). Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was “the great enchantress” of her generation, in the words of Thomas de Quincey. She changed the face of fiction in the Romantic period and shaped the development of Gothic romance. The extraordinary impact of […]