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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I often imagine a thought-bubble above the head of the rider in this picture. He could be thinking all sorts of things: “Almost home”; “How will I break the news to her?”; “Maybe I should stop here […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We went to York to interview Joanna Ezekiel, Creative Writing tutor (and former OCA student) in her home […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 last week of March, six creative writing students swapped OCA’s usual distance-learning approach for an intensive residential course at Lumb Bank in West Yorkshire, one of the Arvon Foundation’s writing centres. Braving snowy conditions […]
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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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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