I have always been a keen writer, and after writing my way through my teens, twenties and thirties, I realised this was probably not just a phase!
Category: Creative and Professional Writing
MA Creative Writing – My first novel will be published in 2020!
After becoming a full- time carer for a relative, I decided that I wanted to start writing again, initially as an outlet, but I soon realised I wanted to study the craft in greater depth and write something that others could read and enjoy.
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Lovely roundup of our involvement with the Being Human festival!
- February, 6
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Marlow Theatre Trip
To celebrate the end of the term and the upcoming Christmas break, students from the Playwriting module for the Creative and Professional writing course took a trip to Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre to see the new play … If We’ve Never Been To The Moon?
- January, 23
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Amazing student play part of the Being Human Festival 2018
Student Leah Hockley (English Literature with Creative and Professional Writing) talks about her immersive play “First of the Feathers” on the Being Human Festival blog.
- November, 20
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An International Summit
My visit to the Creative Industries Federation International Summit 2018 – Elizabeth Waterman-Scrase.
- November, 19
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Blogging from the ‘Jungles’ of Calais and Dunkirk
People often assume that if you do a degree in Creative and Professional Writing you are going to write a novel. I may have had some mild aspirations of that nature in Year One, but with each new module my vision of the future morphed with new and exciting possibilities – “definitely going to write plays…actually I fancy screenwriting…no a radio writer…definitely”. But conversations with a tutor around Life Writing and a visit to UCL took me down a completely different path. University can open up doors to experiences never imagined or expected.
- February, 1
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‘Let Your Passions Lead You’ – A Creative Writing student’s view
I was nine when I first realised I wanted to be a writer. I distinctly remember receiving a Jacqueline Wilson Write-Your-Own-Novel kit for my birthday, and spent weeks writing a fantastical story about an all-girls Chelsea Football Club. Not my best work.
- January, 16
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Ghost Stories for Christmas
A crackling fire. A glass of something warming. And a good fright. It’s what Christmas is all about, no?
- December, 4
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O what we ben! Discovering post-apocalyptic landscapes in Andreas and Riddley Walker
Andreas is one of the longest and least well-known works of Anglo-Saxon poetry, and my former PhD supervisor Professor Richard North and I put a good few years into preparing an edition and translation of the poem that was published last year.
- November, 10
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