Centre for Place Writing
Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues.
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Dr Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
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Centre for Place Writing
The Centre for Place Writing is a creative and critical research centre in the Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, exploring the relationship between writing and place to examine major contemporary issues. This is a list of core and affiliate members & current PGRs.
@fossilfreebooks.org
Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉 fossilfreebooks.org linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks opencollective.com/fossil-free-books
@zebracaz.bsky.social
Heritage Operations, Chief of Staff & Committee Chair 🏛️The Portico 📚 ~ Co-Founder The Zebra 🦓 Partnership Award Winning Mentor, Publisher & Events ~ Chartered Management Institute Chair WMNW Board, Deputy Chair, CMI Women ~ 50:50 Parliament Trustee
@porticolibrary.bsky.social
The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social
Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Arthropod (death of workers), Gag (above / ground), Mortar (Osmosis).
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
@joaesth-phenom.bsky.social
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
@theoryculturesociety.org
theoryculturesociety.org Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
@memoryplace.bsky.social
Led by Professor John Sutton and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
@contactmcr.bsky.social
🎭Manchester Arts Centre 🎟️Theatre•Art•Music•Events 🥂Food•Drink•Co-working•Hires 👉DMs not monitored 24/7, email boxoffice@contactmcr.com
@britishacademy.bsky.social
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Your national development agency for creativity and culture • Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds • Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
@dipikam.bsky.social
Writing a novel. MA Creative Writing grad. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
@alcs.co.uk
We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing authors and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977 www.alcs.co.uk
@drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria, specialising in Literary Landscapes. Writing ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ for Bloomsbury Academic. Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
@livunipress.bsky.social
Publishing exceptional research since 1899. Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social. linktr.ee/livunipress
@jocarruthers.bsky.social
Writing a long book on roughness & class in Victorian Britain & a short book on biblical allusion in Victorian Lit; otherwise: Bible & literature, aesthetics & politics; sand & coastlines; teaches Eng Lit at Lancaster Uni, UK. Cat convert. She/her
@katlion.bsky.social
PhD student exploring the connections between Early Romantic writing and present-day climate change📚🌋 🌍@LeedsEnvHums @PriestleyCentre
@gabrielflynn.bsky.social
Writer in Berlin. Debut novel: Poor Ghost! (Sceptre, May 2025). Doing a PhD at Warwick on Adorno and Germans in exile. Co-editor creativecritical.net. Amateur footballer.
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Arctic. Author of *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North,* forthcoming June 2025. Co-editor of *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History* (2018). She/her.
@alecfinlay.bsky.social
artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
A University of Manchester (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social) research platform, developing and championing interdisciplinary research in Creativity and Creative practices. https://linktr.ee/uomcreativemcr
@serenbooks.bsky.social
Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
@melinabuns.bsky.social
international, environmental, and energy historian · associate professor at University of Stavanger and the Greenhouse Center · radioactive waste and Nordic environmental cooperation · project leader of Energy Lives! · member of the Young Academy of Norway
@finnarne.me
Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. I’m into boardgames, photography, maps, birds, and more. Author of books, trying to write more. Find at finnarne.net
@northernsoulprod.bsky.social
Northern Soul Productions is a UK theatre company celebrating the people, places, culture, and heritage of the North. Now Touring: Keep On Keepin' On. #Crewe #Blackburn #Blackpool
@artslancashire.bsky.social
A strategic voice for professional arts and culture in Lancashire. We post about Lancs-wide arts programmes, jobs and training opportunities, advocacy, policy and research. Find us at: Artslancashire.org.uk
@oliharris.bsky.social
Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
@liambatespoet.bsky.social
NWCDTP-funded PhD student @MMU/ Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry winner / Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books) out now www.liambatespoet.com
@jtspartz.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Professor in a former life. MA. PhD. Performing Songwriter. Occasional place writing: https://jtspartz.medium.com. Treading lightly on occupied Dakota + Ho-Chunk lands. Upper Midwest, USA.
@martafsuarez.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Screen Studies. Researching film, TV and computer games. Transmedia. Streaming media. Popular culture.
@itssarahbythesea.bsky.social
Either a writer who powerlifts or a powerlifter who writes 📒💪 With added vegan ADHD and chihuahuas 🐶
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins. (https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
@poetryschool.bsky.social
The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
@biajs.bsky.social
to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
@walklistencreate.org
walk · listen · create (WLC) is the home of walking artists and artist walkers. We are a home for walking writers too!
@talkingwalking.bsky.social
Podcaster and Walking Creative: Founder of Museum of Walking, walk · listen · create, Sound Walk September and the Urban Tree festival. If not on foot, riding a Brompton. talkingwalking.net
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@northseapoets.bsky.social
Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars. northseapoets.com
@forthwrite.bsky.social
Creative writing with, for and by women. 🎧podcast 📝workshops 🗣️events
@aruwriting.bsky.social
We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
@placeperiodical.bsky.social
An international collaboration on the regional magazine. https://www.chester.ac.uk/research/regional-magazine-collection-call-for-chapters/
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social
Germinated in 1991 at the University of Oxford One of the world’s first interdisciplinary research institutions, continuing to tackle the challenges of environmental change, its causes, impacts, and adaptive solutions.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
Working to understand & support what it takes to deliver effective, inclusive & scalable nature recovery at scale.