🐦‍⬛ Walk with us through Hampstead Heath... 🌳 ‘Parliament of the Heath’ is a sonic essay exploring themes of birdsong, ecological familiarity, folk traditions and inheritances of knowledge about the natural world. It invites listeners on a walk through Hampstead Heath as lost knowledge is recognised, mourned, recollected and reclaimed. This is one of six sound pieces made by our MA Writing students in response to the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s collection (@the_efdss ). The students worked in collaboration with musicians, actors and arcane specialists to produce a series of sound works that range from extensively researched cultural reflection to improvised dramatic soundscape. The recordings will broadcast on @resonancefm : 🗓️ Listen Mondays: 11 May, 18 May, and 1 June 📻 Shows are repeated on Saturdays: 16 May, 23 May, 6 June Credits for ‘’Parliament of the Heath’’: Birdsong recordings: @rspb Chorus singers: Isha, Leon, and Rosita Composition, Narration, and Research: Viola Fort Sound Design and Research: Daphne Smith Production, Direction, and Research: Amy Wilde Editorial Management and Research: Ana Martínez de Buen and Xuan Shi #Writing #Folk #Voice

Six Volumes: Sounds Of The Folk Archive Live sound pieces by Royal College of Art Writing students, made in response to the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s archival collection. This Monday at 11:30h on Resonance FM. Each episode features two works made by a small collective of writers. Episode 1: Celtic Witches/Witches Dramaturgy. Celtic witches offer us insight into their origins, beliefs and culture. They guide us on a journey through rugged landscapes and teach us how they connect with spirituality, God and the Earth. Montserrat Miragaya (voiced by Ana Curiel García) grew up in Galicia, in Northern Spain. She grounds her witchcraft in ancient traditions and folklore. Freyja Baker (voiced by Eleanor Westbrook) is a Cornish witch, and advocates for small daily rituals in our modern lives. This conversation offers a rare glimpse into Celtic witchcraft and unites witches from across two ancestral powers. The Witches Dramaturgy is an experimental audio drama that follows a witch plagued with grief and unravelling in the wake of her lover’s disappearance. Beginning in a sacred wood somewhere in England, we trace her descent from heartbroken incantations into increasingly desperate attempts at dark magic. Performed by Anat Ben-David and Sharon Gal. Production Consultant Nil luck.

How family history can shape writing ✒️ Marie Mayingi is a writer of plays and poetry, a graduate of our MA Writing, as well as a Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship recipient. She is based in London, UK and Ano Volos, Greece, but hales from Paris, France. In 2024, she founded the Hepburn Hooks Theatre Company @hepburnhookstheatreco and launched their first evening of short plays, titled “Brown Skinned Girls”, to much success. She has written three plays: “Antigone”, “Something Old” and “Fifty Years”. #Writing #Art #Literature

Mysterious and brooding writers spotted in various Newcastle pubs (pictured in b&w to intensify the brooding) and Greggses (too sublime to be photographed) Here’s what went down: Baltic Centre director Sarah Munro gave us the 411 about community engagement (plus bureaucracy) Artist Uta Kögelsberger gave us the 411 about “Forest Complex”, her latest project on display at the Hatton Gallery We got to see Mac Collins’s “Miscue” at Slugtown, where Matt Antoniak gave us the 411 on community engagement (minus bureaucracy) Books and zines were rifled through, and the setting up of a new exhibition was witnessed at The NewBridge Project Lastly, the group split with some beelining to the Laing gallery, others to a pub (shocker), and the rest to the Phil and Lit Library where they got to attend a bookbinding workshop and chat to some locals …did we mention the various pubs and Greggseseseseses? Fab trip! 10/10! Let’s do it again sometime!

Here’s a(n amended) list of 28 cool and interesting people. They all happen to be on MA Writing this year. Buckle up. Stay tuned. Watch this space.

Earlier this year we produced this publication for the students of Royal College of Art Writing MA @rcawriting to accompany their graduation show one hot evening in June. ‘This Book Is About A House’ was designed @stinsensqueeze and beautifully brings together student texts responding to The Cosmic House, the post-modernist home of Maggie and Charles Jencks. - Client: RCA Writing MA. Format: 180x110mm, 2x books 54pp + 4pp covers, bound in an 8pp double gatefold wrap. Materials: Text on 115gsm, Covers on 190gsm Cyclus Offset, wrap around on 350gsm Cairn Ivory Straw. Method: Offset Litho "Algae Ink" Black for text and covers, Pantone 2371 to wrap + Foil to match. Quantity: 150 copies. - #offset #litho #offsetlitho #offsetlithoprinting #digital #digitalprint #digitalprinting #riso #risograph #risoprinting #printing #print #CMYK #pms #pantone #spotcolour #colour #zine #poster #zine #zines #books #booklet #paper #ink

✍️ What makes an MA Writing @rcawriting at the Royal College of Art unique... Our 2025 graduate, @maxradtai gives us a few reasons including it’s focus on non-fiction writing, collaborations with institutions like @jencksfoundation ’s Cosmic House and lively community with opportunities for public readings of writers’ work. And, of course, there aren’t many writing master’s programmes situated within an art college…🎨 Find out more at the link in the RCA bio.

Join us for an evening of readings from “This Book Is About A House”, for the launch of our collaboration with The Cosmic House @jencksfoundation 🔮💫 13th August 6:30-9:30pm London Hospital Tavern 176 Whitechapel Road

📖 Want to hear what our MA Writing students have been working on this year? #RCA2025: School of Arts & Humanities Show is your chance! On Saturday 21 June from 3 to 5pm, all of this year’s graduating students will read from their work in the Gorvy Lecture theatre at RCA Battersea – and don’t forget to check out their exhibit on the 1st floor of the Dyson Building (show in Image 1). Or see new interdisciplinary work from our MFA Arts & Humanities student @aishaodera on Sunday 22 June from 2 to 2.30pm in the Gorvy Lecture Theatre. This performance is a sonic lecture turned temporal marker in 4 parts. Expect sound and movement to challenge your perceptions. Also from 2pm on Sunday 22 June, a participatory performance from @rcaceramicsandglass sees our artists get up close with their materials with a spoken word element. #RCA2025: School of Arts & Humanities Show is open to the public for free from 19–22 June at RCA Battersea, 12 to 6pm daily (and 12-8pm on Friday 20 June)! #Art #Ceramics #MFA #Writing

Last night was the opening of the @rcawriting show, which launched ‘This Book Is About A House’, designed by Stinsensqueeze. The publication brings together student texts responding to The Cosmic House @jencksfoundation . Printed by @calverts_london #rcawriting #thisbookisaboutahouse #thecosmichouse #jencksfoundation

We are delighted to invite you to a reading by current students of the Writing MA at the Royal College of Art! This will take place in the Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, in our Battersea Campus SW11 4AY, and will start at 15.00 on Saturday 21 June 2025. Admission is free for all, and no booking is required. Our students will be reading short extracts from their final projects which cover an extraordinary range of styles and approaches, as well as subject matter. The Writing MA is unusual in that it is situated at the heart of an art school, and over the past fifteen years it has established itself as one of the finest writing programmes in the country with graduates including Jeremy Atherton Lin, Alice Hattrick, Patrick Langley, Naomi Pearce, Rosanna Mclaughlin, Laura Robertson, and Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, amongst many others. Please join us to be among the first to hear new work by the next generation of writers. There will be an opportunity to see the rest of the RCA2025 exhibition before the event, and to chat with the writers afterwards. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact [email protected].

Save the date✨ Writing: Public Reading Event on Saturday, 21st June, 3pm at Gorvy Theatre, Battersea Join us for an afternoon reading from MA Writing📚📖 We can’t wait to share the words we’ve been working on! #rca2025