Tag Archives: historical fiction

Apparently True: Writing A Novella By Accident

Posted on 11th March 2024 by Stashia Sharp

Creative Writing PhD student and Associate Lecturer Sarah Bower found herself inadvertently crafting a novella during the second lockdown summer of 2021. Ahead of Monday’s online event with fellow OU novella writer Emily Bullock, Sarah  unveils how writing a novella … Continue reading →

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Sketching in Shadow and Sunlight: Writing Multivocal Historical Fiction by Sarah Law

Posted on 27th January 2023 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Today, we hear from one of the Associate Lecturers who teaches on our Creative Writing MA programme. Sarah Law draws back the curtain to reveal some of the choices and happy accidents that lie behind the final form and title … Continue reading →

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Writing in Lockdown

Posted on 10th July 2020 by Sally O'Reilly

Jo Barnden, AL on A215 and A363 For those first, intense weeks of lockdown, I seemed to be out of step with the rest of the world. Everyone was telling Twitter how much time they had to walk through nature … Continue reading →

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A little literary tourism: in search of Hilary Mantel

Posted on 4th March 2020 by Sally O'Reilly

Shafquat Towheed, Senior Lecturer in English Hilary Mantel has been lauded for reviving the fortunes of the historical novel in English, for being the first woman writer to have won the Booker Prize twice (2009, 2012), and for selling over … Continue reading →

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Voices from the Past: Peterloo and New Historical Fiction

Posted on 23rd May 2019 by Sally O'Reilly

It’s exciting to hear that Hilary Mantel’s novel The Mirror and the Light will be published in March 2020. Like many thousands of historical fiction fans, I am impatient to see how she concludes her epic trilogy about the life … Continue reading →

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