Creativity
When we are writing creatively, we’re developing our skills as writers, and also as thinkers and readers. In whatever field of writing you find yourself, be it as a creative writer, creative content...
View ArticleDog Bite (a noun and a verb exercise)
The naming words and the doing words are where all the action is in prose. Look what happened when Blackmore brought the dog-noun and the bite-verb together: savagery. I love Blackmore’s poem for so...
View ArticleWays in to Writing Imaginatively
Suddenly I’m spending time with teens, but they’re not my own two, and I’m talking about writing. Working with the year 12s this past month, and my usual third year university students, I’ve seen...
View ArticleListening parties, the new thang.
Invitation, illustration by Maxine Sundic It wasn’t the fault of artistic angst, but Dear Dr Chekhov has taken a little while, a few years in fact, to reach the airwaves. Last week it premiered at a...
View ArticleSUMMER 21 WRITING WORKSHOP
Join us for a summer of writing This is an intensive set of workshops to encourage a regular writing practice, with each participant submitting 500-2000 words (or equivalent for poetry) fortnightly,...
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