Former Sussex student named Poet Laureate of the British Virgin Islands

Richard Georges, who received his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex in 2017 has been named the first ever Poet Laureate of the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
 
The designation of a Virgin Islands Poet Laureate is the BVI’s way to express its love and appreciation for the art of poetry. A Poet Laureate is the official poet ambassador of the territory and is selected from amongst the territory’s most accomplished poets and must serve for three years.
 
Dr Georges, who has also recently been named the President of the H Lavity Stoutt Community College, was supervised by Denise Decaires Narain and Sam Solomon while studying for his PhD at Sussex.

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Journalism student appearance on BBC Newscast

BA Journalism student Georgia Keetch appeared alongside Vice-Chancellor Adam Tickell on the BBC Newscast podcast to discuss the government’s latest Covid-19 guidelines and specifically how students can get home safely at the end of term.

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Former Sussex English student has memoir published

Little A, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, will publish Matt Greene's memoir, Jew(ish): A Plea on 1 December 2020
 
Matt is a former Sussex BA English Language student. His memoir will explore what it means to be Jewish in 2020 and will explore questions of identity, religion and family.

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