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!
Tag: literature
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A memoir, Wales, and the presence of absence. From conception to finish, it’s taken Pamela Petro eight years to write The Long Field. But it’s a memoir, so it demanded a lifetime of research. Petro writes about events from her own history, her own close relationships, and sews wider observations – about Wales and the world –…
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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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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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“We must not fall in love with another Lover, we must not leave the Golden Palace, we must not get pregnant, we must not reveal any classified information we overhear in the politicians’ rooms.” These are the rules that Iris, a Lover in the sinister reality series The President Show, has to obey or risk expulsion… and…
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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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NITRB editor Ellen Lavelle reviews Femi Kayode’s debut thriller.
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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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Dozens of writing competitions for you to get stuck into during 2021.
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Nothing in the Rulebook reviews ‘Broken Consort’ by Will Eaves (published by CB Editions).
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Nothing in the Rulebook reviews ‘Crow Court’, the debut novel by Andy Charman
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