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The Centre’s latest newsletter is available here

Issue 3 of Gramarye is now available to buy here This issue’s contents include: ‘Hans Christian Andersen: It’s Me The Story’s About’, Neil Philip ‘The Well of D’yerree-in-Dowan’, Patrick Ryan ‘Dragons of East and West’, Rosalind Kerven ‘Death and a … Continue reading →

The talk on ‘Steampunk’ by Frauke Matz on Tuesday 5 March has had to be cancelled due to illness. We wish Frauke a speedy recovery.

The February/March 2013 Sussex Centre Newsletter is now online here

Storytelling, storywriting, storyprinting: Telling tales and the origins of children’s books Monday 11 March 2013 5.15 – 7 pm in the Mitre Lecture Theatre, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester Ruth Bottigheimer and Matthew Grenby, Professors at New York and … Continue reading →

A Christmas bonus for this Grimm Year! Please find attached here an article by Professor Jack Zipes entitled “The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm”, published in The Public Domain Review. We are very fortunate to have his fascinating piece, … Continue reading →

Issue 2 of Gramarye is now available to buy here. This issue is a special illustrated edition featuring work by Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Mel Grant, Arthur Rackham, Adelaide Claxton, Margaret Jones, Edmund Dulac and many more. This issue’s contents … Continue reading →

ON TUESDAY 26 March, Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and founding father of the academic discipline of Fairy Tale studies, will give a lecture at the University of Chichester. He’ll be … Continue reading →

Prof Marina Warner of Essex University is giving a talk in Lausanne entitled “Magicking reality in contemporary fiction in English”. For details see here

Robert Louis Stevenson Day will be celebrated for the first time on 13 November (Stevenson’s birthday). As part of the celebrations the Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) based at the University of Glasgow will be printing copies of Stevenson’s … Continue reading →

Launch of new Sussex Centre journal, Gramarye. Tuesday (29 May) at 5.15pm in Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester. There will be readings by Steve O’Brien (Editor of the London Magazine, poet and Creative Writing  Fellow at Chichester University) … Continue reading →

The March/April Sussex Centre Newsletter is now online.

There has been considerable media attention given to the discovery of new folktales by German scholar Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. A selection of Schönwerth’s folktales has been published in German under the title of Prinz Roßwifl (‘Roßwifl’ is a local … Continue reading →

The first Sussex Centre Newsletter is now online. You can download it here. Open publication – Free publishing – More and fantasy

The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy has appointed an administrator to replace Dr Jane Carroll who has returned to teach at her alma mater, Trinity College Dublin, now that her contract has expired. Many thanks to Jane … Continue reading →