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Study visit: Buxton Festival – historical fiction and opera

Posted: 18/04/13 04:25 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. For the third of our creative writing study visits this spring and summer, we are heading to the handsome Derbyshire spa town of Buxton in the Peak District for the Buxton Festival on Saturday 6 July. An important […]

Study visit: Chawton and Jane Austen's Tricks

'Jane Austen's Tricks' |Jane Austen's House Museum Chawton Jane Austen John Mullan study visit

Posted: 09/04/13 08:13 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. For the second of our three summer creative writing study visits, we head to Hampshire on Saturday 29 June to visit Jane Austen’s House Museum at Chawton in Hampshire. It was here that the novelist wrote ‘Mansfield […]

Dickens’ London study visit

Charles Dickens The Dickens House Museum

Posted: 02/04/13 08:50 | 5 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We are beginning our programme of study visits for creative writing students with a Dickens’ double bill on Friday 24 May. In the morning, a walking tour starting on the fringe of the City near The […]

Lives on the page

biography Mrs Miniver Slightly Foxed Slightly Foxed Quarterly The Real Mrs Miniver Whitbread Biography of the Year Award

Posted: 02/04/13 08:01 | 2 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The second of our guest blog posts by independent publisher Slightly Foxed is about a biography of the real Mrs Miniver, Jan Struther. Written by her granddaughter Ysenda Maxtone Graham and shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography […]

Threads entwined

competition Matthew J. Fisher short story short story competition Wordhut.com

Posted: 26/02/13 03:53 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Earlier this month, OCA creative writing student Matthew J. Fisher’s short story Ma’s Kit made it to the shortlist in the Wordhut.com 7th Short Story Competition. The story is published on his website, which, along with his blog, went […]

Cup cakes are over, hello macarons

Amber Pearson Daily Mail getting published literary agent publisher reading public

Posted: 24/02/13 03:11 | 6 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. 150,000 new books are published each year. Nonetheless, a new writer looking for a publisher will find it an uphill struggle to find one who will even glance at their manuscript. Amber Pearson, freelance book reviewer […]

Love reading

Carol Ann Duffy Counting Steps Geoffrey Chaucer Mark Charlton Pablo Neruda Parlement of Foules

Posted: 12/02/13 09:52 | 0 Comments

Lovelorn, partnered, married, happily single: this week, it’s hard to avoid the tacky manifestations that now accompany the annual celebration – or commiseration – that is Valentine’s Day.

Costa countdown

'Small Town Removal Costa Short Story Award Guy Le Jeune writing competitions

Posted: 24/01/13 01:56 | 7 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. It’s a long wait from 7 September to 24 January, as OCA creative writing student Guy Le Jeune has discovered. His short story, ‘Small Town Removal’, was one of six from over 1,800 entries to make the […]

Writers' resolutions

Posted: 07/01/13 03:04 | 2 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. To kick start the New Year for OCA writers, publisher and writer Andrew Oldham shares his advice about what to focus on when submitting work to publishers. His advice is direct and practical. If 2013 is […]

My grandfather – Slightly Foxed but still desirable

Denis Constanduros Foxed Quarterly independent publisher literary quarterly memoir out of print

Posted: 17/12/12 04:14 | 3 Comments

Slightly Foxed started life nine years ago – initially as a literary quarterly set up by two editors keen to put their publishing experience into an independent venture. Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood had worked with many authors over the years and finding contributors (both published and unpublished writers) to enthuse about books that they had […]