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Belfast film poem awarded Berlin prize
Creative Writing Associate Lecturer Csilla Toldy has won an award for Best Street Art Film at the Berlin Underground Film Festival for her film poem ‘Belfast Exposed’. Sally O’Reilly interviewed her about her work and how this project developed. You … Continue reading
Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH)
Interview with (Peg) M A Katritzky, Senior Research Fellow, Department of English & Creative Writing Can you tell me more about Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH)? In 2019, GiTH (Gender in the Humanities) a research group active in … Continue reading
Ed Hogan interview
Ed Hogan is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. His first novel, Blackmoor, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Other novels include The Hunger Trace, and Daylight Saving, … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, novel, short story
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Cold Dark Matter: Writing a poetry collection during lockdown
By Patrick Wright, PhD Student, Creative Writing As an introvert, and usually working from home, the lockdown has allowed much of my practice to go on unabated. Some aspects have intensified: developing an active imagination and reflection are two examples … Continue reading
Caron Freeborn (1966-2020): an appreciation
Steve Padley, Staff Tutor, English Caron Freeborn, who died in April after a short illness, was a poet and novelist, and an AL in Creative Writing at the Open University. She taught on A215 and A363. She was also a … Continue reading
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A little literary tourism: in search of Hilary Mantel
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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Tagged Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, historical fiction
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George Eliot’s Piano
Dr Delia da Sousa Correa, Senior Lecturer in English 22nd November 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans. Appropriately 22nd November is St Cecilia’s day, in honour of the patron saint … Continue reading
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Tagged George Eliot, Handel, Middlemarch, music, piano, Romanticism, Wagner
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‘The Antipodes’ by Annie Baker at the National Theatre
Alistair Daniel, PhD student and Associate Lecturer, Creative Writing In his monumental study, The Seven Basic Plots, Christopher Booker identified the seven types of story that, he argued, recur time and again, in everything from fairy tales to Hollywood blockbusters. … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Annie Baker, George Polti, John Yorke, Seven Basic Plots, Waiting for Godot
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Thoughts on retreat, writing and solitude as the nights draw in
Joanne Reardon, Lecturer, Creative Writing The popularity of writing retreats has grown and grown over the past few years: retreats masquerading as holidays where not much writing is done, teaching retreats where you get a writing tutor thrown in, retreats … Continue reading