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Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle discovers a film set in the yard outside her flat. She talks to ‘Myrlan’ co-creators Dale Raven and Cieran Ryan.
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When my friend introduced me to Anna Jefferson over email, she described her as ‘officially the funniest person I know.’ It’s a weighty title but, with two popular comic novels – Winging It and Nailing It – delighting readers all over the world, Jefferson has the strength and the skill to bear it, flex, and crown herself with it. …
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle talks to writer and director Amy Brandis about making her directorial debut ‘Screw the Pooch’ in lockdown.
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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle interviews writer April Roach about ‘We Paint With Our Eyes Open’ – her short story published in The Literary Platform’s ‘The Tilt’
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A preview of Costanza Casati’s debut novel ‘The President Show’.
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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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“Don’t judge the book by its cover.” That’s the rule that we were told to apply to everyone and everything. Books are not an exception. But where does it leave authors who are about to publish their novels? Should they completely disregard the design of the book covers because what’s inside is more important? Absolutely…
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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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Scientists, artists, politicians and explorers have explained, sometimes beautifully, why books are essential. They are, for instance, “fundamental to all human achievement and progress”, according to Astronaut Neil Armstrong. But is logical reasoning like this the true reason we are drawn to books, why we worship them? Is there more to it? Kafka – that…
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Dozens of writing competitions for you to get stuck into during 2021.
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