EBB collaborates with St Martin’s College on School-Wide Essay Writing Competition
St Martin’s College (Swatar, Malta) recently held a school-wide initiative celebrating the art of the essay-L-Esej, through an exciting competition in both English and Maltese. Themed ‘Our Planet’, this initiative showcased students’ essay-writing skills across all levels, in both Maltese and English. The event was a collaborative effort between the English, Maltese, and Creative Arts […]
Exploring the Early Modern Essay at Pisa University
Students of the Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literatures at Pisa University recently delved into the origins and evolution of the essay as a literary form during a two-part workshop titled The Early Modern Essay. The workshop, part of the English Literature 2 course taught by Professors Paolo Bugliani and Roberta Ferrari and organised […]
Workshop Series in Slovenia
The inaugural Slovenian EBB essay writing workshop was announced in September 2024, sparking great interest among writers and enthusiasts alike. Workshop coordinator Andrej Blatnik carefully selected 10 participants from the pool of applicants. The group comprised five established authors—each with published works spanning poetry, fiction, and children’s literature (though none had previously published essays)—and five […]
Essay and Place Workshops in Five Post-Secondary Schools in Malta
Between November and December 2024, Prof. Mario Aquilina delivered ten creative writing workshops for more than seventy students in five different post-secondary schools in Malta. The workshops focused on writing about place in ways which combine personal experience with general ideas that are relevant to a wider audience. Participating students were given the opportunity to […]
Essay Workshops for the General Public in Malta
The final session of the first essay workshop series for the general public in Malta was held on Saturday 16th November. The workshops, which were delivered by Prof. Mario Aquilina and held in historical sites managed by Heritage Malta, consisted of five sessions of three hours each and were attended by essayists, academics, journalists, teachers […]
Official launch of EBB in Malta
The official launch of Essays Beyond Borders in Malta took place on the 6th of November 2024 at the Aula Magna of the University of Malta’s Valletta Campus. The event drew an engaged audience comprising writers, students, educators and academics. The programme began with an introduction by Prof. Mario Aquilina, the Academic Lead of the […]
The Modernist Essay at Universita’ di Pisa
On October 21-22, 2024, the University of Pisa hosted a workshop titled “The Modernist Essay,” as part of the MA Degree Course in Euro-American Languages, Literatures, and Philologies. The workshop was led by Paolo Bugliani and Roberta Ferrari and spanned two sessions. Session 1 (Monday, October 21st): The Modern EssayThis session examined the evolution of […]
Joost de vries and Thijs Lijster in conversation.
As part of the University of Groningen’s Arts Festival, that took place September 2024, EBB consortium member Thijs Lijster had a public conversation with Joost de Vries. Joost de Vries is an acclaimed novelist and essayist, and adjunct editor-in-chief of the Dutch weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. His books, including The Republic and Higher Powers, have been translated in over […]
Essay Events in Ghent
The inaugural Essays Beyond Borders (EBB) transnational meeting took place in Ghent, Belgium, from September 12th to 14th, 2024. Hosted by Ghent University, the event brought together project participants to explore the contemporary state of the essay, with a special emphasis on its role within a planetary context. A highlight of the event was the […]
Essay Workshop in Ljubljana (starting October 2024)
The Slovene Writers’ Association, in collaboration with the universities of Malta, Ghent, Groningen, and Pisa, as part of the Erasmus+ project “Essays Beyond Borders,” is organizing an essay workshop. The workshop will take place mostly on Mondays at 5 PM at the Slovene Writers’ Association premises, Tomšičeva 12, Ljubljana, and will run until the end of the year.
The workshop will be led by writer, editor, and professor Andrej Blatnik, with contributions from various experts in writing and the thematic fields that the workshop essays will address.
The recommended topics for writing are environment and space, but other socially relevant themes are also welcome.
To participate in the workshop, submit either a text you would like to improve during the workshop, approximately 10,000 characters in length (shorter and longer texts will also be considered), or a thousand-character outline of a text, along with another finished piece of writing. Please also include a brief description of your previous work and background.
Applications should be sent to kreativnopisanje@gmail.com by October 1, 2024.
The workshop begins on October 14. Participation is free, but if there are too many applicants, participants will be selected based on the texts they submit and the relevance of their topics.
