Category: Arts & Writing
Short stories, photography, art, videos
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Scientists, artists, politicians and explorers have explained, sometimes beautifully, why books are essential. They are, for instance, “fundamental to all human achievement and progress”, according to Astronaut Neil Armstrong. But is logical reasoning like this the true reason we are drawn to books, why we worship them? Is there more to it? Kafka – that…
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Dozens of writing competitions for you to get stuck into during 2021.
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On November 1st 2020, Rushmoor Writers turned seventy years old. It’s the second-oldest writers’ group in the UK, after the Authors’ Club, which was founded in 1891. To celebrate this milestone, the writers group has published an anthology of new writing, The Thing About Seventy. The anthology features tales of love, loss, lockdown, dragons, abandoned houses, dead…
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A short story about self-esteem, sugar paper and buying butter online.
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C.R. Berry, author of the time travel conspiracy thriller Million Eyes and current chairperson of UK writing group Rushmoor Writers, talks about the art and the benefits of creating anthologies for writers’ groups.
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“Lately, the Booker prize is losing whatever vestiges of objectivity it once had,” writes Chris Zacharia.
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Erotic fiction doesn’t get more forensic than this; as Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham get on top of the detail (and each other)…
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Rachael Cooper explains how to easily outline your novel using the ‘Snowflake Method’
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Jennifer Taylor reviews Thorp Stavri’s ‘Five Hides’ art exhibition at the Manor Place Baths in Walworth, London.
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“Do we value a piece of writing because it directly relates to our live, or do we value it for the opportunity to see how others see the world, and how there are other worlds?” Geoffrey Heponstall ponders these questions in this discursive essay.
