天美传媒

Laura Wood, a PhD candidate at the 天美传媒, who is writing a thesis on Victorian literature, was named the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing and will have her debut novel, Poppy Pym and the Pharoah’s Curse, published next year by the company behind The Hunger Games books.

The prize, created by Scholastic, the leading children's publisher, and the Italian luxury stationery supplier Montegrappa, invited unpublished authors to submit the first 5,000 words of a story designed to appeal to children aged between seven and 12.

Congratulations to Emily Hasler, English and Creative Writing BA in 2007 and MA in Pan-romanticism in 2008 with us, who has secured an Eric Gregory Poetry award () this year! Well done, Emily!

MA in Writing student Sohini Basak has been shortlisted for the prestigious Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2014! Well done Sohini!

Three Warwick academics are among 42 distinguished scholars from 19 universities elected as Fellows of the (FBA) at its Annual General Meeting held on 17 July 2014. The Fellowships recognise outstanding research from scholars of distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Millie Taylor-Brown's essay 'Reconstructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imagination, 1885-1935' has just won this year's British Society for Literature and Science Essay Prize. This is a competition open to early career scholars up to three years after award of the PhD. Millie has won this competition for work done during the first year of her PhD so this makes this achievement all the more spectacular. The essay will be published in the Journal of Literature and Science​ later this year.