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OCA students gain inspiration at New Designers thumb

OCA students gain inspiration at New Designers

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   New Designers Exhibition. Business Design Centre, Islington, London. Tutors Pat Moloney and Liz Smith recently visited the New Designers exhibition with a group of OCA students. Pat is no stranger to the yearly exhibition: ‘I spend […]

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‘It’s Late’ brings early publishing success for poet Josephine Edge thumb

‘It’s Late’ brings early publishing success for poet Josephine Edge

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA creative writing student Josephine Edge has enjoyed poetry all her life but until last October, had never seriously attempted to write it.  She worked on two poems last year when she was studying the OCA […]

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‘Red Roots – Orange Sky’ published thumb

‘Red Roots – Orange Sky’ published

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor Csilla Toldy’s first collection of poetry, ‘Red Roots – Orange Sky’, was launched in Belfast at the end of June.  Student Christine Gutsell, who is currently studying Writing 2: Poetry and Form, talked to Csilla […]

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Study visit: Chawton and Jane Austen’s Tricks thumb

Study visit: Chawton and Jane Austen’s Tricks

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   On a sunny summer afternoon, a small group of students enjoy a picnic lunch on the lawn of an English garden, talking of re-writing and editing. It’s a simple scene, and one that flatters the too-often-accepted […]

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Common sense for the silly season

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   There are just two weeks to go before the summer parliamentary recess begins on 18 July and MPs head back to their constituencies – or take off for the sun-drenched coastlines of mainland Europe, the Americas […]

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'Reading' video poetry

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Video poetry originates in experimental films, but is based on the given text of a poem. OCA creative writing tutor Csilla Toldy’s interest in the art form has grown from her work as a poet and film-maker. […]

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Public libraries: for writers as well as readers thumb

Public libraries: for writers as well as readers

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Last week, Malorie Blackman, the author of the Noughts and Crosses teen novels, was named as the new Children’s Laureate.  Her call to ‘get more children reading and make reading irresistible in all its forms’ comes […]

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Dickens' London study visit thumb

Dickens' London study visit

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   A walk by the River Thames in the morning down the alleyways and round the corners that inspired the novels of the Victorian writer Charles Dickens.  An afternoon getting to know the house in Bloomsbury that […]

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Portia and Desdemona – Venetian cousins thumb

Portia and Desdemona – Venetian cousins

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The writer John Toft is best known as a novelist. His depictions of his native Staffordshire, published in the 1970s and ‘80s, are cited in The Oxford Companion to English Literature as examples of the regional novel, which describe […]

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