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: Creatives in profile – interview series
We profile writers; artists; photographers and other creatives in this long-awaited interview series
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Film director Max Newsom sat down with Nothing in the Rulebook as we discussed what it takes to make an independent movie in an era of Hollywood blockbusters and Marvel superheroes.
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Nothing in the Rulebook caught up with self-described “funny-sad” author, Dan Brotzel, to discuss writing, maintaining your creativity under lockdown, and how to be funny
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Costanza Casati is a writer and screenwriter. She was born in the US, but grew up in Milan, in Italy. She studied at universities in London and Oxford before graduating from the prestigious Warwick Writing MA with a distinction. Her short stories Rotten Roots, Horrible Feet, and You Asked For It, have all been published…
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It’s been a busy decade for Samantha Shannon. A writer of dystopian and fantasy fiction, Shannon signed a six-figure book deal with Bloomsbury back in 2012, when she was just twenty years old and still studying at Oxford. Her debut, The Bone Season, the first in The Bone Season series, went on to become an…
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“I think poetry (and the arts in general) has the ability to offer fresh perspectives and visions, to challenge the status quo and allow folks to walk for a moment in others’ shoes,” argues slam poet Grae J Wall in this ‘Creatives in Profile’ interview
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We may be in the middle of a global crisis, but there’s nothing in the rulebook to say you can’t continue your interview series during a worldwide pandemic… Nick Brooks was born and lives in Glasgow. He studied art when he left school, made stain glass windows, poured chemicals down toilets, signed on the dole…
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‘A city on fire, a community in turmoil, a family torn by its principles.‘ Steve Gay’s first published novel, The Birds That Do Not Sing is set on the day after the World War II city bombings campaign. Now available for purchase in paperback, the novel was inspired by long-told tales from his own family…
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“Do it wrong and you can end up with plot holes bigger than a temporal rift”, sci-fi and fantasy author, C.R. Berry wrote (in these very digital pages) about the challenges that writers must overcome when writing about time travel. Yet the very real difficulties that can be found in navigating all the timey-wimey stuff…
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Author Matthew Sperling speaks to Nothing in the Rulebook’s Christopher Barkley about writing, literature, and football…
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Nothing in the Rulebook sat down (virtually) with new band, Honeyboys, to talk making music in a time of Coronavirus and wildfires.
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