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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Sophie McDonald considers the giant planetary forces that influence the choosing of fictional character’s names.
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Illustrator Bee Willey explains what all artists and illustrators need to pack in their creative toolkits
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Piecing together the legacy of Ezra Maas means piecing together the book, tracing the ghosts behind the lines, writes Ellen Lavelle
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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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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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Changing pen colour daily, playing Glastonbury, working in graveyards: authors at Newark Book Festival share how they really write their books in conversations with Ellen Lavelle
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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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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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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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Omnibus Theatre – a multi-award-winning independent theatre in Clapham, South London – has released its schedule for the Autumn Season 2019, featuring dozens of exceptional new plays and performances. The new Autumn Winter season at Omnibus Theatre sees nine productions featuring new writing, four of which are returning companies. We welcome three touring shows, a…
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