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WherecouldstudyingEnglish Literature take you? As part of a new series, we are getting in touch with some of the old girls who studied English Literature A-Levels here at Shrewsbury High School. The guest writers are either studying English further or have entered the working world. This series gives us a view of what life is like post A-Levels and offers an insight into why English Literature is so valuable in the real world.
Top: Poetry Busking in Trafalga Square Bottom: Open Mic Poetry Night
She left less than a year ago and is now studying English at University College London. Our first guest writer is Jennie Howitt. Jennie studied English Literature at A Level and deeply loved poetry. But now, she isn’t just reading poems, she’s writing them too!
Jennie has been published in two Voices of Youth Anthologies; The Young Writer’s Magazine, The Awakened Voices Magazine, UCL Writers Block Magazine and is a top 15 winner of the prestigious Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 for her poem The Hanging Rock and Highly commended in the Young Poets Network Namedropping Challenge with People Need Nature and Jen Hadfield. Jennie is enjoying university and is loving her course; she is especially excited to be studying T.S. Eliot. Jennie is involved heavily in the Drama and the Writers Societies at UCL and has written her first play which she hopes to put on soon. It just goes to show that English Literature can lead down so many paths and perhaps her work has inspired some people to study English Literature where there are so many different courses to study, so why not have a look! Links for Jennie’s published articles http://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/jennie-howitt/
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