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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date OCA tutor Liz Cashdan reports on Karen’s winning story. Karen was Liz’s student. It’s great that Karen Gunning has won the OCA annual competition prize for Creative Writing for her story “The Big 4-0”. Her story […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Chris Arthur reports on our recent creative writing competition. He set the task and judged the work that was submitted. The task was to use this image as a starting point for work. You can also […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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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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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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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. In the process of working on the new Photography Level 3 professional practice module, I contacted the Guardian and Observer’s correspondent on photography, Sean O’Hagan, to ask him about how came to make a living out […]
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