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Aspiring writers and textiles enthusiasts take note! The OCA has just had two new degrees validated — a BA(Hons) Creative Writing degree and a BA(Hons) Textiles degree. The BA(Hons) Creative Writing degree offers a wide range of specialist modules, including narrative and dialogue, writing for children, life writing and writing poetry. It’s the only open […]
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Back in 2003, Australian Cherise Saywell studied two OCA creative writing courses, an experience she describes as ‘enormously beneficial to my development as a writer’. Success soon followed with Cherise winning the prestigious VS Pritchett Prize for her short story “Beef Queen”. Cherise is based in Edinburgh, and continued to develop her writing, with the […]
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You might be a football supporter, love Elvis’s music, read comics, enjoy charity shop purchases or simply be an ardent fan of a local band. Whatever your interests, someone, somewhere will have made a fanzine about it. You may have not come across many fanzines as they tend not to make it onto the bookshelves […]
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The Typographic Hub has just been launched as a new initiative by UKType and Birmingham Institute of Art & Design to promote the history, theory and practice of typographic design. If you’re a typographic geek like myself, or just somebody with a passing interest then the website is well worth a browse. The Typographic Hub […]
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A new BBC series, Faulks on Fiction (based on Faulks’ book, available from the BBC website), starts this Saturday (5th February) at 9pm on BBC2. Sebastian Faulks will be looking at the heroes of the British novel in early works such as Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and the snobs of British literature in Fleming’s James Bond. […]
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OCA Creative Writing Course Leader Jane Rogers’ latest play ‘Red Enters the Eye’ is to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this Friday afternoon. Julie is off to Nigeria and rather nervous. Listen to the opening scene here Full listing details are on the Radio 4 website here Image by kayaker1204 on flickr
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Not so much a blog of the week (or even a thought for the day) but a moment to address one of the most frequently asked questions raised by new students to the OCA: ‘What do you mean reflective? It says I should be reflective in my learning log, how do I know if am […]
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In case you’ve missed all the press coverage on this event, here’s the premise in brief: 1,000,000 books are to be given away by 20,000 book lovers on Saturday 5th March. 35 books have been chosen, from which you can choose the book you would like to give away to friends, colleagues, reluctant readers etc. […]
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A couple of months ago we reported that Creative Writing Course Leader Jane Rogers was off to Uganda to develop a pilot for a radio soap opera. Here Jane updates us on progress. The Radio Mifumi project has now produced 10 episodes of a ready-to-air soap opera, Mako-mere (Making Friends). We had to put the […]
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The clocks have gone back, the ghosts have flitted among us and returned to their thinly veiled otherworld, the Guys have gone up in a slightly anachronistic blaze of political glory and it’s time make a hot chocolate and curl up in the warm with a good book. Below is a list of some of […]
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