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Almost eight months into the four year part time masters degree in Fine Art, James Kowacz, one of OCA’s current MA students, is embarking on a fascinating participative project, ‘A Seat in the Memory’. He is looking for people to contribute to it. Whether you are a photographer, artist or creative writer, you can contribute […]
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I come back to Rosalind Wyatt’s work once more, because quite simply, her textile art illustrates so many ideas and themes. For the moment, I want to focus on her use of text on fabric, something which often causes concern to students and much sampling and trying out of expensive supplies. I would always encourage […]
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One day, Elizabeth reads David Nicolls’ novel ‘One day’. The next, she goes to see the film of the book. It’s an experiment in comparison she’s been meaning to indulge in for years: fiction versus film.
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Let’s start with the assumption that writers want to see their work in print. For poets, novelists, biographers and writers of memoirs, the lure of type on a page, their name as author stated boldly on a cover designed by some-one who understands what makes books sell, holds a place in their aspirations. We could […]
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I have just re-read ‘The Lumber Room’, a short story by the former Burma police officer H H Munro, who wrote under the name of Saki. More than 30 years after having the story read aloud to me when I was 15 years old, its language and tone are still vividly familiar, even though until […]
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Jacky Fleming’s illustrations and cartoons have regularly featured in The Guardian, Big Issue, New Statesman & Society and Independent on Sunday amongst many other publications, books of her cartoons published by Penguin and her work exhibited far and wide. She kindly agreed to an email interview for the We are OCA blog. Did you always […]
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In this interview, OCA Creative Writing Course Leader Jane Rogers talks about her new novel. Set in the very near future, a highly credible future, The Testament of Jessie Lamb is an intensely moving read. The process of doing the interview has given me a greater appreciation of the skill needed but, with judicious editing […]
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When I was a small child, just starting school, my favorite moment in each day was the one, after we’d finished our tea, when my father went into the front room. He’d say to me, ‘don’t pull the curtains and don’t switch on the light.’ Then he’d sit at his piano in the last of the […]
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Tipped In is a novel in progress by Martha Lea, creative writing student with OCA. Martha’s work has been highlighted to us at HQ recently and we are pleased to give you a taste of her writing here. It comes from Chapter Two, set in Edinburgh. ‘What’s this – what the?’ you said, pointing at […]
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Paul, our webmaster, is off at Focus on Imaging so we can’t touch the main OCA website. Having announced the Creative Writing Degree at the end of last week, it wasn’t long before someone noticed that we need a third level one course in Creative Writing to complete the degree programme. This course, to be […]
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