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Category Archives: Creative Writing
Creative Writing MA Scholarship: Deadline 29 July 2022
Here at the Open University, we have recently launched a Creative Writing scholarship for our masters degree programme. These scholarships are aimed at low-income UK residents from Black backgrounds, and 16 students will be funded over the next 5 years. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beir Bua Press, Black backgrounds, Creative Writing masters degree, Currock Press, Daughters of Thyme, Fractal Poems, From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry, Hinterland, Hippocrates Prize Anthology, I hate to be the one to tell you, International Book & Pamphlet Competition, Jane Keenan, Judge Romalyn Ante, Learning from the Body’, low-income, Marian Christie, One Hand Clapping, Open University, Oulipo, Penteract Press, Poetry and Covid, scholarships, Spelt, Strix, Sue Brice, Sue Butler, Tally Sheet, The North, Viv Longley, Yaffle press, Zoë Walkingon
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Memoir and Motherhood
Meghan Flaherty, Associate Lecturer on A215, has recently been awarded a Scottish Book Trust Ignite Fellowship. The fellowship offers talented professional authors practical and financial support for exploring new avenues or making new breakthroughs. Meghan will be working on her … Continue reading
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Tagged A215, Associate Lecturer, Best American Essays, Catapult.com, Columbia University, creative writing, Ignite Fellowship, Meghan Flaherty, Meghan Maguire, New York Times, O, Ode to Gray, Open University, Parents, Psychology Today, Scottish Book Trust, Tango Lessons, The Iowa Review, The Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review, University of Glasgow
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Climate Change and Creativity: Interview with Sally O’Reilly
Sally O’Reilly is a novelist and Senior Lecturer here at the Open University’s Department of English and Creative Writing, where her role as Media Lead has included editing this blog. Before Sally’s appointment as a Central Academic in 2014, she’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Garner, Charles Foster, Climate Change and Creativity, Climate Crisis, Collective Action, Contemporary Cultures of Writing, Dark Aemilia, Department of English and Creative Writing, Eco Worrier, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, How to be a Writer, Jenny Offill, Kristian Evans, Open University, Sally O’Reilly, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Societal Challenges, Ted Hughes, The Best Possible Taste, William Blake, Writing the Climate, You Spin Me Round
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Narrative Imperialism and Writing Home: A conversation between Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, a new PhD student, and Sarah Butler, a recent graduate
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone has just embarked on a PhD in creative writing funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership. We put her in touch with Sarah Butler, who was recently awarded her own PhD in creative writing, … Continue reading →