Welcome to the English Association

The English Association is the leading cross-sector subject association for people passionate about English language, literature, and creative writing. We connect individuals and organisations from all sectors of education and all areas of English studies. Through our publications, events, and networks, we promote dialogue, share expertise, and celebrate our discipline. We are committed to working with partners across SHAPE and STEM subjects to create the future through education. 

Our website is the home of our community. Members can log in to access to all our online content: join us today and explore English Studies from early years education to higher education and beyond.

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Publications

Our publications bring together cutting-edge research and practice across all stages of education and are available to members online.

Newsletter

Articles, interviews, and reports on current topics in English Studies.

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English 4-11

The magazine for the primary and early years classroom.

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The Use of English

The journal for teachers of English in secondary and further education.

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English

Dedicated to new developments in English Studies.

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Essays & Studies   

Essays & Studies is a series of themed volumes, each edited by a distinguished academic. It is published on behalf of the Association by D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer.

Essays & Studies can be purchased on the Boydell & Brewer website. Members of the EA have access to fantastic discounts on Boydell and Brewer books!

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Issues in English

A series of occasional publications dealing with developments in in English studies and the teaching of English at all levels.

Members have access to a fantastic discount on Issues in English when purchased in our shop.

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English at the Interface

English at the Interface explores or represents English Studies at the interface with other languages, cultures, professions and disciplines from the medieval period to the present day.

English at the Interface can be purchased on the Liverpool University Press website. Members of the EA have access to fantastic discounts on this series!

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Bookmarks

The Bookmark pamphlet series supplements the enthusiasm of teachers and provides additional resources for readers wanting to broaden their engagement with literature.

Members can access new editions of the Bookmarks online for free.

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Campaigning

The decline in A Level enrolments is the single biggest challenge the discipline faces. Here’s what we’re doing about it.

Events and opportunities

Our events bring our community together, promote the exchange of knowledge and enable members to address current developments in our subject. Members are entitled to discounted tickets as well as access to archive event resources and recordings.

Prizes and Awards

Our prizes and awards recognise outstanding achievements in scholarship and creative writing by students, first-time authors and early-career researchers. Other awards celebrate the authors, illustrators and publishers of the best children’s picture books as chosen by practising teachers and education experts.

Fellows Award

This annual award recognises individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the broad field of English Studies, particularly teachers, academics, and practitioners in the early stages of their career.

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English Postgraduate Essay Prize

The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.

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The Beatrice White Prize

Awarded each year to the best scholarly article noticed in the Year’s Work in English Studies (YWES) in the fields of English Literature before 1590.

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News

Jul172026

House of Commons Education Committee report on Reading for Pleasure

The English Association warmly welcomes the very full report on Reading for Pleasure from the House of Commons Education Committee, published today.  The report covers, thoughtfully and authoritatively, many areas of concern for the English Association, and has drawn constructively on written evidence provided by the Association and spoken evidence given by Fellows of the…

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Jul102026

A new English Teaching Research Community

A community for those interested in researching the teaching and learning of English Language and English Literature in schools The teaching and learning of English are endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex and endlessly powerful. Ours remains the most quicksilver (Dixon, 1975) of subjects, constantly evolving and subject to multiple, simultaneous pressures. This means that there is…

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Jul52026

The EA in the media: Faculty job cuts

A letter to the Editor of The Times, signed by colleagues across English Studies (including Chair of the EA Professor Jenny Richards, CEO of the EA Dr Rebecca Fisher, and EA Fellows Professor Greg Walker, Professor Clare Lees, Professor Ann Heilmann, Professor Helen Small, Professor Gail Marshall, and Professor Nigel Leask) was published on 5 July…

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Jun252026

Consultancy opportunity for teachers: ecocritical approaches at A Level

We’re working with the University of Wolverhampton to explore how climate change can be discussed in the English classroom.  Our colleagues at the University of Wolverhampton would like to recruit an English teacher to help script a short video inspired by Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees. Shafak’s novel, which will be included as…

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Jun192026

Charter for Change launched at Westminster

The English Association, the Institute of English Studies, University English and Bloomsbury Press took the case for English Studies to Westminster at a Parliamentary Breakfast hosted by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Baker of Dorking CH PC on Thursday 18 June 2026. Guests from business, education, media and the Higher Education sector came together to…

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Jun182026

Radical hope and the future of English: the 2026 EA Conference

On Saturday 13 June we enjoyed our annual Conference at Senate House in London. Elizabeth Draper FEA (Deputy Chair of the EA), has kindly written a brief report to share her reflections: Dr Rebecca Fisher, CEO, opened the conference, marking the 120th year of The English Association. This year’s Conference had two main themes, Climate…

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