Creative Writing Resources (page 3)

If I Were a TreeIf I were a tree I would be big and strong,Towering over the others.And if there was a bird that flew over me I d yell and ruffle my leavesBecause I am a tree an...

The unconventional painter Joseph Mallord William Turner begins his tale in London, 1828. Following his success as a child prodigy, he now situates between being dedicated to his ar...

Newcastle cocktail maker voted best in the UK for his new gin recipe A cocktail maker from Tyneside has been voted the best in the UK for his new gin recipe Ping's Obsession - Thanks...

In the decade before the Great War a young man visits his tubercular cousin at a sanatorium in the Swizz Alps for a planned stay of 3 weeks and ends up staying 7 years. Fact 1: In...

How are we going to get our children to read books again? In a television interview, Terry Wogan posed this question directly to the great children s author Roald Dahl as far back ...

That Was a Shiver and Other StoriesBy James KelmanPublished by CannonGate £14.99 h/b At the age of 71, Glaswegian writer James Kelman appears to be enjoying a late-period purpl...

On 13 May 1939, the transatlantic liner, St Louis, set off from the north German port of Hamburg, its destination Havana, Cuba. The majority of its 900 passengers were German-Jewish r...

Prior to winning the Booker for his 1994 novel How Late It Was, How Late, it’s fair to say that one pretty much knew what to expect from James Kelman. In a series of bleakly b...

‘What Are You Writing For?’ When I’m looking at comprehension with my students or if they’re doing a writing task for me, I explain to them that they need to know two things: WHO?WHY?...

Crime Fiction within the Academy: The Creative and Critical Possibilities Seminar Presentation Given at the University of East Anglia on the 25th February 2016 In try...