EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Level English Language and Literature – Stylistics in the Lang Lit Classroom (Guisborough) A day of CPD on A Level English Language & Literature from a stylistics perspective

Teaching A-level Lang/Lit and can’t get down to one of our London workshops? Well, EMC goes north for this one!

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Our summer course programme is available online, with a phenomenal 28 courses to choose from. Such is the infinite variety of our subject! Book early to secure your place (and help us with our planning!) www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Anthology Teaching for AL Language & Literature <p>New ideas for teaching anthologies for AL English Lang &amp; Lit.</p>

As part of our ongoing work with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit team (aka @jessnorledge.bsky.social & @stockwell.bsky.social), we are running this @engmediacentre.bsky.social course in London in May. It's all about anthology teaching for A Level Lang Lit:
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/51e5...

25 quid for food, drink and 13 great pieces of scholarship? You’d be mad not to! Cheaper than staying at home (or you CAN stay at home and join us online)

Teaching Lit in the Lang Classroom
30 March: Uni of Nottingham

tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Programme now up! Come and join us on 30th March - register on-campus (and we’ll feed you) or online (and we won’t).
tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Final reminder about our Nottingham symposium on Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, 30 March 2026 (fully hybrid event)

Submission deadline is tomorrow, so there's still time to prepare your abstract.

For full details, see the CfP below. We hope many of you will be able to join us!

I am currently in Athens. Oranges are growing in the street. But fear not, I will be back in equally fructiferous Nottingham for this. If you teach literature in a language classroom, come and join me there at the end of March!

Using or teaching literature in the language classroom? Come and talk to us in Nottingham: 30th March

Our Spring 2026 webinar packages are available for purchase! Buy yours now to secure access to all the webinars coming up this term for yourself and your whole department: buff.ly/vtsFPnq

Only a few places left for this. Come along and have a mince pie* with us?

(*mince pies may or may not be served on this day)

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit

Discover new approaches to teaching A Level English Language and Literature on this in-person course with guest presenters Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge.

Book by: 8am on 11th December
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@stockwell.bsky.social, @englangblog.bsky.social and I will be presenting all new ideas and activities for approaching fictional characters, narrative, and poetic writing, with examples and activities tailored to popular A-level text choices from across the A-level boards. Register today!

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language &amp; Literature with guest presenters&nbsp;Peter Stockwell &amp; Jessica Norledge.

Sad to be missing out? Why not join us in December for ‘New Approaches to Teaching A level Lang/Lit’? Bookings now open!

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Absolutely delighted to be back at the @engmediacentre.bsky.social for a fun-filled day of Literary Linguistics! Today we’re joined by teachers across the country for our ‘Starting to Teach A level LangLit’ course. Such fun!

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language &amp; Literature with guest presenters&nbsp;Peter Stockwell &amp; Jessica Norledge.

And we are continuing our successful (and fun) Lang Lit collaboration with University of Nottingham stylistics gurus @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social with this course in December and a re-run of our Starting to Teach course in November.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Did you know that when you purchase any of these key EMC anthologies, you will also be able to access a pack of free downloadable resources specific to each one? Find out more: buff.ly/bqbiZWG

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi

Happy reading!

EMC CPD Online: Starting to Teach A Level English Language

"Gave me confidence for teaching A Level Language for the first time and lots of ideas for lessons and resources."

Book by: 8am on 5th September
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The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit is here at @natefeed.bsky.social. Swing by our stall in the atrium to find out more (and snag a fancy highlighter!)

Ready to go here at @natefeed.bsky.social with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit (15.12.2025 Autumn 2025) New approaches to teaching A Level English Language &amp; Literature with guest presenters&nbsp;Peter Stockwell &amp; Jessica Norledge.

Looking to continue your stylistics adventure? Join me and @stockwell.bsky.social at the EMC in December for a brand new CPD LangLit course.

New Approaches to Teaching A-level Lang/Lit | 15/12/25

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Starting to Teach A Level Language and Literature (4.11.2025, Autumn 2025) Cross-spec course introducing Lang &amp;Lit AL, with classroom resources.&nbsp;<em>NB:</em>&nbsp;<em>This is a repeat course.</em>

Are you dreaming of those cooler autumn/winter days? Why not plan ahead and book some LangLit CPD?

Starting to teach A-Level Language and Literature | 04/11/25

(N.B. This is a repeat course. If you’re looking for something new, check out the next post!)

www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/8a8f...

EMC Associate Teacher Posts 2025-26 Opportunity to become an EMC Associate Teacher.

A big thank you to everyone who has applied for 25/26 EMC Associate Teacher posts. As ever we're hugely impressed by the quality of teaching expertise out there + are only sorry we can't work with all of you. Deadline is 9am tomorrow morning www.englishandmedia.co.uk/projects/emc...

Busy proofing our 25/26 catalogue, which details everything we do at EMC. Very proud that our small team has so much reach - and grateful to all the teachers who put their trust in our work!

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A taster of the literary + linguistic treats inside the April 2025 edition.

Resubscriptions for 25/26 now available www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

TFW it's open mic night down at the local but you didn't bring the casio with you

Prof Louise Mullany giving a lecture

We're now onto Louise Mullany who has the best title today: "Grow a pair! (Im)politeness, banter and insults in everyday talk".

A display showing text from NK Jemisin's Emergency Skin.

We've been given a secret mission. I'm not sure if I should be sharing this with you. I'm typing this looking over my shoulder for robot enforcers.

Keeping the lang/lit flame alive - well done to organisers @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social

Today is our conference for students of English Lang/Lit at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

To the StylisticsMobile!