Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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As readers, writers, artists and all-round creative folk, we thought we’d put down a few resolutions with a creative angle, in the hope that we might loosen the creative ligaments and spur ourselves onto widen our lives, and broaden our creative horizons
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Make 2022 the year you resolve to reading and supporting books by new debut writers.
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A selection of some of our favourite literary gifts for the book lovers in your life
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California-based band, Honeyboys, return with “absolutely killer” new track, ‘Green Tea’, writes Professor Wu
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Professor Wu revisits the advice of writers Joseph Heller and Naomi Shihab Nye to consider the importance of first sentences, and the moments of inspiration and creativity that fuel our creative fires.
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Six years on from our last ‘creatives in profile’ interview, NITRB caught up with Tim Leach following the launch of his latest novel, ‘A Winter War’
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Last week, Tecola Smith posted her book of poetry to Oprah Winfrey. ‘I’ve paid for it to be signed for,’ she says, ‘so someone’s going to get it.’ Her poetry collection, She’s My Poetic Philosophy, is based on Tecola’s experiences as a Wellbeing Mentor at a university in Birmingham. They tell the stories of the young women…
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Annie Garthwaite waited thirty years to write a novel about Cecily Neville. She’s always been a writer, but a writer within the world of business. She’s worked for multinational corporations, set up her own communications company, sustained a successful career. But, throughout it all, she’s had one eye on Cecily. And Cecily’s had an eye…
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Five years ago, Pam Petro was visiting her mother in a nursing home in Connecticut. She’d arranged to meet her mother’s caregiving team for a meeting, but she was early, so she went for a walk. It was a walk she’d done before, around a pond in the grounds, but as she set off, she…
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Charlotte Lunn went to her first poetry reading when she was ten. There were community days at her local church every Saturday, and one weekend they invited a poet. He’d written a book of children’s school poems and, as he read, Charlotte became enthralled. He signed her book and she took it home. She told…
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