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Tag Archives: creative writing
The Long and Short of It, Session 3: Significant Ideas in Slender Volumes
On Monday 18 March 2024, in the third instalment of the MK Lit Fest series The Long and Short of It, acclaimed writer Emily Bullock was in conversation with OU Associate Lecturer and PhD student Sarah Bower discussing the novella, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, Research
Tagged Author Conversations, creative writing, Emily Bullock, For Always Only, Literary Discussions, Literary Forms, literature, novel, Novella, publishing, Reader Engagement, Reading, Sarah Bower, short story, Writing, Writing Process
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The Long And Short Of It, Session 2: The Richness Of Short Stories
On Monday 12 March 2024, we had the privilege to hear the writer Rattawut Lapcharoensap in conversation with OU Associate Lecturer Dr. Alistair Daniel. In this second instalment of the MK Lit Fest series The Long and Short of It, they … Continue reading
Apparently True: Writing A Novella By Accident
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
A Fine Balance: writing, teaching, public engagement
When the world opened again after lockdown, my steadfast companion was the view out my home office window of a fell in Cumbria. Fell ponies often arranged themselves along the ridge of the commons above grazing sheep, backlit by low … Continue reading
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Tagged A363, A363: Advanced Creative Writing, Common People, creative writing, Dorothy Wordsworth, Emma Claire Sweeney, fourth genre, Kit de Waal, Lania Knight, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, MKLitFest, My Name Is Leon, Open University, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Signal 8 Press, sublime, There is Fire Here, William Wordsworth, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, Zoe Lambert
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Judging Milton Keynes LitFest’s Poetry Competition
In recent months, several members of our Creative Writing team have been collaborating with our local bookish friends at Milton Keynes Literary Festival. On Saturday 15th April, lecturer Lania Knight interviewed fellow novelist and life writer Kit de Waal about … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, News, Public engagement, Research
Tagged Bridport Prize, Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester, creative writing, Daffodils, ekphrasis, Exit Strategy: Ekphrasis through the lens of the abstract and the formless, Eyewear, Full Sight of Her, Jane Yeh, John Pollard Prize, Kit de Waal, Lania Knight, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, MinK2023, MKLitFest, Night Mail, Norman Nicholson, PhD in creative writing, Siobhan Campbell, Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Windscale
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Researching truth in documentary theatre
Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill, Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing, has been collaborating with University of València colleagues who share his interest in contemporary Irish theatre. Together, they have been exploring the relationship between performativity, truth, and documentary sources. Here, Dónall offers us … Continue reading
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Tagged 7:84 Theatre Company, Aisling Ghéar, Bruised Sky, Carole-Anne Upton, creative writing, Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill, Departament de Filologia Anglesa, documentary drama, documentary sources, Elizabeth Burns, Irish theatre., Jagriti Theatre, Las Fallas, Maria Gaviña Costero, Northern Irish playwright, northern Irish post-conflict drama, Open University, performativity, Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, Scorch, Soho Theatre, Stacey Gregg, theatre for social and political advocacy, theatres of conflict, Tinderbox, truth, University of València
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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
Posted in Creative Writing
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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Writing in Lockdown
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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Tagged agents, creative writing, historical fiction, lockdown, novels, publishing
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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
Posted in Reading pleasures, Reflections, Research
Tagged creative writing, novel, short story
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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