nothing in the rulebook
A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!
Author: professorwu
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As democracies around the world face unprecedented challenges, amid ongoing climate breakdown, we bring you inspiring quotes from famous writers and thinkers to inspire change.
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Sometimes, it seems, spoilers really can be a matter of life and death.
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There are some books that make you forget where you are, and transport you instantly, silently, into new worlds and places. Roger McKnight’s Hopeful Monsters short story collection – published by Storgy press in London – is one of these books. Seemingly from the first page, you find yourself displaced, to a Minnesota summer, where…
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How can men get away from their “bulbous salutations” and descriptions of women as empty vassals for them to have sex with, and start writing sex that is actually good?
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Few writers consistently and exuded as much visionary force as beloved author Toni Morrison, who has died today at the age of 88. The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. In her stunning Nobel prize acceptance speech (which…
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Pick up your party hats and join Nothing in the Rulebook for our first ever creative summer party, as we raise a glass to our community of creatives and celebrate our fourth anniversary – as well as our new site redesign. Since first launching in August 2015, we’ve been absolutely honoured to feature a whole…
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This summer, thousands of shows, actors, directors, writers, musicians and other creatives descending upon the streets of Edinburgh for the world famous Fringe festival. As a collective of creatives, this very much feels like our sort of jam – the diversity of artistic talent on display is enough to make your creative tastebuds start salivating…
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The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one. As readers, we may notice their role only when a certain lack of editorial presence is felt in the books that we read (for instance, in many self-published works on Amazon). While, as writers, editors can seem to be the…
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Here’s the premise: a person (poet, artist, writer, musician) chooses a collaborator (another writer, poet, etc.). They share a poem with one another, and then each produces a visual ‘dub’ version/remix of their collaborator’s poem. Now, perhaps unsurprisingly, as a collective creative ourselves, Nothing in the Rulebook was immediately inspired by this idea, which is…
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Joseph Alexander is a writer from a mixed Romani / white working class background. He went to Oxford for grad school and PhD, where he also taught for about 5 years. At Oxford, he had a one-sided feud with Richard Dawkins for stealing his vegetarian lunch, until they sat next to each other at dinner…
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