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!
Category: Arts & Writing
Short stories, photography, art, videos
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“Perhaps the uncanny’s ability to evade definition is the secret to our simultaneous fascination and unease with it”, writes Dr Pippa Goldschmidt, editor of the ‘Uncanny Bodies’ anthology’.
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Publishing a book as a woman is an inherently bold act, writes author Gwen Goodkin.
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“It is hard to justify a career in the humanities and social sciences in India,” writes Jayat Joshi in this explorative essay into the very nature of critical thinking.
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This year, Sara Bullimore , artistic director of Newark Book Festival, was able to attend the events she organised. ‘That never happens,’ she says. ‘I’m normally running from one venue to the next to check everyone’s ok. This time, though my fingers were typing across two computers and a phone, I was able to watch the events. I…
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A personal essay by Anna Maria Colivicchi
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Novelist Andy Charman writes about his personal experience working with a writing coach – and explains how he ended up writing a novel by accident.
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She arrived in Westminster for work experience with Boris Johnson, but she could never have imagined where she’d end up with Keir Starmer…
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The email comes with an attachment that might, probably will, ruin her life forever. You. Asked. For. It. She repeats each word carefully, her face bright in the pale blue glow of her laptop screen. She’s sure she knows what the attachment is but she’d rather die than open it. The email has no subject.…
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Yesterday, we got my grandmother set up on my Dad’s old iPad so we could call her on Facetime. She only lives a few doors down but she is in her seventies, has a long-standing medical condition and has been told to self-isolate. Self-isolation is her usual operational setting. If something can be done from…
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“Over the years, we’ve dealt with a fair amount of criticism for apparently encouraging smoking. But we don’t! We encourage reading flash fiction instead. Could you imagine? We’d go on our flash breaks. We’d have special areas at airports. We’d have flasher’s cough.”
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