OCA Creative Writing: Goodbye from your Programme Leader
Posted: 15/08/25 10:53 | 8 Comments
After twelve years as a creative writing tutor, and ten years as course programme leader, I’ll be leaving OCA this month.
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OCA events: Hexham Book Festival
Posted: 08/06/21 10:07 | 0 Comments
This year, some festivals are staying online, to prevent having to cancel at a later date. But the established Hexham Festival, established in 2006, is planning to go ahead next month in beautiful Northumberland. We’re delighted that three of our creative writing tutors will be running workshops at the event.
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Tutor news: Vicky MacKenzie
Posted: 26/05/21 09:36 | 6 Comments
Huge congratulations to OCA Creative Writing tutor Vicky MacKenzie on this highly prestigious book deal for her novel. Any of her students will agree that she is a wise and wonderful writer as well as a wonderful tutor – so it’s great news to hear of the imminent publication of this fascinating book.
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Poetry Sensory Writing Workshop
Posted: 19/02/21 10:04 | 0 Comments
Wednesday 3rd March 1pm In this workshop we will think about the senses and how a range of sensory images can bring a poem to life. We will consider what a cliché is and discuss some examples of these, focusing on how the images could be more original if reworded. Students will read two and […]
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Top of the ‘greasy’ pole!
Posted: 07/02/21 09:36 | 0 Comments
Those of you who follow our OCA Creative Writing social media – in particular, the @ocawriters Twitter account – may have spotted a few celebratory posts earlier in the year. When we learned the course had achieved 100% student satisfaction in the 2020 NSS survey, we were all absolutely thrilled. ‘NSS’ stands for National Student […]
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Socially distanced, still smiling: a play for our times
Posted: 06/02/21 09:17 | 0 Comments
If someone were to write a book of ‘Lessons from Lockdown’ – and I am sure they will! – then surely one of the most important is how much we should value the arts. How many of us were comforted during the worst times by reading, music or visual art or by being able to […]
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