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Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...Creative writing...Writing what you know: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate the notion of ‘write what you know’ write ‘blind’ descriptions of known objects and note new observations have an enhanced ability to list sensory perceptions write short texts about a personal memory of either a place or a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
History & The Arts

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

...creative writing, potentially associated with a source of inspiration – or Muse – in the context of cryptic wordplay. A muse of a different kind Taylor’s poem, too, refers to the “Muse” in the context of hemp: But hollow Muse what mounted to the sky, I’ll clip your soaring plumes for you and I Must talk of Paper, Hemp, and such as this, And what a rich...
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Article 10 mins
Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...Creative Writing from University College Cork. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press and won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award, being shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, and the Farmgate National Poetry Award. Twomey’s poetry explores other aspects of the female experience,...
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Article 5 mins
We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover
History & The Arts

We shouldn’t judge Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by its cover

...light of reality television. Even as an adult, the irreverent humour, Dahl’s clever rhyming couplets and Blake’s illustrations are still captivating to me. Ultimately, I think, readers should be talking about the book, not its cover. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Inspired by Roald Dahl? Try out creative writing...
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Article 10 mins
Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...creative writing as a means of sharing experiences, raising public awareness, and enabling asylum seekers and refugees to develop their skills and be appreciated as imaginative individuals. Downloads are mostly free at www.lulu.com. Several books featuring poems and stories by refugees from dozens of countries, alongside work by local writers in solidarity. Most recently,...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...creative writing is very useful – but don’t allow yourself to be a slave to someone else’s technique. There is no right or wrong way to write a novel, and you have yet to discover the method that works for you. This relates to your working methods and the way you use your time. You might be a plotter or a splurger, a night writer or a creative lark who leaps up at...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...creative writing group with Michael Longley. She has, to date, published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996); Between Here and There (2002); The State of the Prisons (2005); Through the Square Window (2009); Parallax (2013) and On Balance (2017). Found Architecture, Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet in 2020. From the outset, her work was...
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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...Creative Writing and Classical Studies today...In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and occasionally women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs