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Love reading

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.

Study visit to Leeds International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair

artists books book design Illustration printmaking Typography

Posted: 29/01/13 09:30 | 8 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. On Saturday 9 March we will be running our first study visit to Leeds International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair at Leeds University. Now in it’s sixteenth year, the fair showcases the work of artists, bookmakers, students, […]

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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood had worked with many authors over the years and finding contributors (both published and unpublished writers) to enthuse about books that they had […]

Writers' writers

Posted: 15/12/12 05:01 | 8 Comments

Zoe Heller’s Notes on a Scandal: a lesson in economy, not a single word wasted. John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: the near-perfect symmetry of masterly plotting. Carol Ann Duffy’s Echo: form meets meaning as trios of words rebound between stanzas. As all writers know (and sometimes overlook, as we rush to formalise […]

Close encounter

'Iceland Stories' Iceland Jessica Rowland Liz Cashdan NES Pat Hodson

Posted: 19/11/12 02:50 | 2 Comments

Reykholt, Geysir, Gullfos, Arnastap, Bru, Stykkishōlnur, Spákonufell, Smirlabjargarvirlgun In 2009, OCA tutors Liz Cashdan (creative writing) and Pat Hodson (textiles) spent the month of August on a NES residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Now, a new book of poems and images, ‘Iceland Stories’, which includes a sequence by sound artist Jessica Rowland, is to be published, inspired by […]

Go figure!

'Hide and Seek' 'Writing Skills' Debbie Weil John Cariani Lynn Verhey Opera House Arts' Playwriting Workshop

Posted: 07/11/12 02:22 | 12 Comments

OCA creative writing student Sue Bolton’s 10-minute play ‘Hide and Seek’ has just been performed by a community theatre group in Stonington, Maine, USA. The process of creating the script presented her with the challenges all writers would expect – and some that came as a surprise. Her imaginative approaches to addressing them included playing […]

Stepping Down

Posted: 01/11/12 08:12 | 10 Comments

I’m stepping down from my role as OCASA President a little earlier than originally intended and there will be a process, beginning shortly, designed to have a new President in place by 1st February 2013. My two year term would have been due to end on 31st May. My reasons fall, broadly, into two […]

The road to becoming a writer

becoming a writer Cinnamon Press Counting Steps Mark Charlton Views from the Bikeshed

Posted: 31/10/12 10:39 | 10 Comments

Mark Charlton completed his OCA studies and graduated with a first class degree in September 2012. His first book, Counting Steps, Journeys into Landscape and Fatherhood is published by Cinnamon Press this month. Mark blogs regularly at Views from the bikeshed and has just tutored at Ty Newydd, National Writing Centre, Wales with the acclaimed travel writer Rory Maclean. Here, he […]