MA Creative Writing student Paul Stephenson to Run Online Course

The course is entitled Channel Hopping: A French Exchange (Transreading).

Paul Stephenson studied modern languages. Following a gap year in Avignon, he went on to study and work in Montpellier, Lille and Paris. He took part in the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme in 2013 and the Aldeburgh Eight in 2014. He has published three pamphlets: Those People(Smith | Doorstop, 2015), which won the Poetry Business pamphlet competition judged by Billy Collins; The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015; and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He completed an MA with the Manchester Writing School and co-curated Poetry in Aldeburgh 2018 with the Poetry School. He has a blog at paulstep.com where he interviews poets.

The course extends an invitation to get to grips with what’s being written in France and to faire la connaissance of a range of poets active on the French poetry scene today. In so doing, this course considers the poetry that has fed these poets’ own artistic sensibilities and writing practice.

You can find out more about the course here.