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: Craft & Culture
Writers and artists share their advice for fellow creatives through articles, writing tips and artistic guides, as well as interviews. Alongside this, we share reviews and cultural opinion pieces.
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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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As reading rates decline, poverty, social media, and cuts to library services could be to blame.
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As the UK leaves the EU, Nothing in the Rulebook sets out some of the realities of the impact Brexit will have upon the UK’s artistic sector – and looks ahead to a year of potentially painful – and crucial – negotiations that will shape the future of the country’s creative industries.
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“Humanity is sick and there is no cure” – author Ross Jeffery talks apocalyptic literature and society’s decline in our latest ‘Creatives in profile’ interview…
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Readers told to expect good things from Ross Jeffery’s debut novel as it draws parallels with literary titans like Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, and Chuck Palahniuk.
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Listen to rare audio recordings of literary greats like Sylvia Plath, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Bukowski right here, for free.
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Adam ‘Shuffle T’ Woollard explains how you can learn how to remember the first 100 digits of pi in no time at all – all while spicing up your battle rapping skills.
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‘Woke’ literature, the unfulfilled promise of e-books, collapsing author incomes and the rise of crowdfunding – here’s a (far from exhaustive) look back at what the 2010s taught us about the literary industry
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NITRB head to The British Library to find out more about Ian Sansom’s latest creative endeavour.
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“There’s a problem in the publishing industry when it comes to class.” – Paul McVeigh and Kit De Waal take on literary establishment with new anthology from Unbound.
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