Sunday 03 April
Registration
Opening Session
Drinks reception
Dinner

Monday 04 April
Welcome and introductions

Hooray Henry?: big traditions and small canons
Ron Carter and John McRae

Group Work: session 1
Strand 1
Ron Carter

Strand 2
John McRae

Stories within stories within stories
Ali Smith and Claudia Ferradas Moi

Participant presentations/Reading groups

ReadingPatience Agbabi

Tuesday 05 April
Pages and Stages
Patience Agbabi and Ali Smith

Group Work: session 2
Strand 1
Finding Voices
Alan Pulverness and Patience Agbabi

Strand 2
Instructions to read blank cards: Ali Smith’s short stories in the classroom
Claudia Ferradas Moi and Ali Smith

Reception at Blackwell’s Bookshop

Wednesday 06 April
Participant presentations/Reading groups

Books and MAN Bookers
Valentine Cunningham, Martyn Goff and John McRae

Something of the Dark
Colm Toíbín and John McRae

Group work: session 3 on Colm Toíbín’s work

Reading by Colm Toíbín  

Thursday 07 April
Fiction and the Reading Publics
Peter Childs and Sean Matthews

Group work: session 4

Walking tour of literary Oxford

Presentation of resources and project planning

Friday 08 April
Non-standard: the academy in the poet, the poet in the academy
W N Herbert and John McRae

Creative writing workshops
W N Herbert and John McRae

Grub Street and the Ivory Tower (Elephants too are dying)
D J Taylor and Sean Matthews

Reading groups

Guest Reading: Margaret Drabble

Saturday 09 April
Closing plenary session
Checkout and departure

The event closes after lunch on Saturday 09 April.