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In Conversation: Nina Milton and Lizzy Perkins
Posted: 10/12/25 09:33 |
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Reaching the final unit of your stage 3 (HE6) studies is a thrilling moment, but filled with some trepidation. In the Creative Writing Department, The final unit, 3.3 asks the student to create a self-directed outwardly facing project, by clarifying what they want to do as a creative practitioner, so that they graduate knowing where their writing can take them, and how to approach readers, agents, editors, publishers, audiences and producers in a professional manner.
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Getting Published, and Finding an Audience
Posted: 12/05/25 05:14 |
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OCA Creative Writing Tutor Rab Ferguson talks to us about his journey to publication, finding an audience, and receiving a national award for his children’s writing.
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Creative Intersections: Music, Photography and Teaching
Posted: 17/04/25 12:22 |
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Creativity rarely exists in isolation—ideas flow between disciplines, shaping and reshaping artistic practice. This blog explores how Chamfer emerged as a response to the limitations of the contemporary art world, finding a more immediate and flexible outlet in music.
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Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work
Posted: 20/02/25 05:06 |
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Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.
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OCA Creative Arts: Unpicking Couture
Posted: 09/01/25 02:51 |
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In an ongoing quest searching for more examples of interdisciplinary practice for our BA (Hons) Creative Arts students, I recently came across an interesting exhibition in Manchester. The Costume Gallery has now merged with the Manchester Art Gallery and subsequently has various fashion-related exhibitions that can now be seen in the city centre until November 2025.
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Can Constraints Improve Our Creativity?
Posted: 09/01/25 11:36 |
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The romantic idea of the divine nature of artistic inspiration still commonly influences the way artists are perceived today but has very little to do with how most creativity happens. Most of us have jobs and personal commitments that make living a life of artistic freedom impossible.
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