What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English – the first decade

9-12th July, University of Lincoln

Draft conference schedule

Friday 9th July

9-12 – coffee and registration

12-1 lunch (atrium)

1.00 – Plenary 1: Don Paterson on 21st century writing

2.15 – Panel 1

3.45 – Panel 2

5.15 – Plenary 2: reading – Iain Sinclair

6.15 – drinks

7.00 – Performance: Tim Crouch, my arm, LPAC

8.30 – dinner (ASK, Brayford Pool – delegates to pay)

Saturday 10th July

9.00 – Panel 3

10.30 – coffee

10.45 – Plenary 3: Lynette Goddard, 'Dialogue, Debate, Discourse: Tackling 'Big' Issues in 21st
Century Black British Theatre'

12.00 – lunch

1.00 – Plenary 4: poetry reading – Daljit Nagra

2.00 – Panel 4

3.30 – tea

3.45 – Panel 5

5.15 – drinks

6.00 – Plenary 5: poetry reading – Carol Ann Duffy, LPAC

8.00 – dinner (Pyewipe, riverside pub, short walk along canal; included in conference fee)
Sunday 11h July

9.00 – Panel 7

10.30 – coffee

11.00 – four-paper Panel 8

1.00 – lunch

2.00 – Plenary 6 – Reading: Will Self (Jackson LT)

3.30 – tea

4.00 – Plenary 7 – Talk and workshop: Julia Barclay, ‘Apocryphal Writing in the 21st Century’

5.30 – drinks

6.00 – Plenary 8 – Reading: John Burnside

7.00 – leave for dinner

7.30 – Conference Dinner (Assembly Rooms; included in conference fee)

Monday 12th July

9.30 – Panel 9

11.00 – coffee

11.30 – Panel 10

12.45 – lunch

1.45 – Plenary 9 – Rachel Falconer: ‘Can Literature Help Save the Planet?’

3.15 – Roundtable on 21st century Writing and close of conference