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  • Pen as negotiator between creative brain and creative body – famous writers on the importance of handwriting

    There is something about handwriting that is thoroughly human. Few things exercise – and exorcise – the often stubborn collaboration between mind and body like that direct line between the tip of the pen and the tip of the neuron. Pens become the corporeal transmitter of creative flow for writers, just as the paintbrush is…

  • Billy the Echidna’s essential autumnal reading list

    Oh-ho, saviours of the written word! As we are tucked in tighter to the rigid sheets of autumn, harder to shift in the mornings and their embrace distant in the evenings, have faith in the script. We’ve given you some ace reads for when the living is easy, but how’s about the times when the…

  • Creatives in profile: Interview with Asher Jay

    Our ‘Creatives in profile’ interview series offers creatives the opportunity to discuss their life and art at length. And it is an honour to introduce our latest detailed interview – with artist, writer, National Geographic Explorer and creative conservationist, Asher Jay.

  • The role of the creative and our place in culture

    Creatives of all forms remain in a constant, symbiotic tango with human nature and culture. All of human thought remains distinctly entwined with that strange, living thing we call culture. Literature, art, music, photography – these strands of culture both reflect who we are, in our values, our hopes, fears, ideals, and shapes who we…

  • Love, Simply

    A spring-time, fresh-faced joy. One of life’s wonders has appeared and is Here to stay. It comes in teardrops, or in smiles. In a gale of laughter, or a quiet giggle. In a hug, a sigh or nervous chatter. Or an argument so furious your heart aches. Some don’t believe in fairies but We know…

  • New anthology celebrates Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

    In November 1915 Albert Einstein published his now world famous General Theory of Relativity. It introduced to physics new concepts, such as the curvature of space-time and black holes, and it made extraordinary predictions about the bending of light around massive objects. I Am Because You Are is a timely collection of new fiction and…

  • Some of the finest advice on writing – Kurt Vonnegut on stories, structure and style

    Fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays and five works of non-fiction stand as a towering testament of Kurt Vonnegut’s ability to show us the fantastic in literature, and the extent to which books and writing can make us feel sublime. He is rightly admired by writers, readers – and most people who have…

  • All that jazz: the latest Write Stuff jazz journalism initiative returns!

    Calling all new and aspiring jazz writers, the latest Write Stuff jazz journalism initiative returns for its 13th year in November at London’s Southbank Centre with a new series of workshops and mentoring sessions held during the EFG London Jazz Festival. Founded and organised by Jazzwise and Serious, the Write Stuff gives new jazz writers a…

  • The Starling

    I paused. There was a noise above my head, in the attic. It was intermittent. I wasn’t sure if I’d heard anything at all it was so indistinct, so gentle. The child which remained somewhere within me played with the idea of ghosts and spirits but I wasn’t intrigued enough to venture into the cold…

  • Creatives In Profile: Interview with Mike Dodson

    Creativity, in all its myriad different forms, can take us to the edge of the world and look beyond. It can inspire, inform, influence. Used in the right way, it can illuminate the path ahead. Because of this, Nothing in the Rulebook has been founded to emphasise such creativity. Yet we’re also here to highlight not just…