Poetry Competition

Guest post by Olamide Shobowale What is Poetry? Poetry strings words together with intensity to express feelings and ideas using a unique style and rhythm to describe a place or tell a story. It sparks the imagination and resonates with our emotions. Poetry has been in existence for almost four thousand years and is still relevant today. It is an integral part of art and culture. Even though poetry is boundless, there are different types. The Oakwood Literature Festival. The festival is a not-for-profit annual festival launched in 2018, aimed at promoting books, reading culture, and ‘bringing readers and authors together…

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The Minefield of Creative Writing

Guest post by Lauren Davison  Introduction It’s a challenge to give creative writing an exact definition The scope of it is so vast, that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what something has to be, in order to be categorised under the creative writing umbrella. However, Derbyshire Writing School co-founder Laura Stroud’s description of creative writing as ‘an act of creation,’ that allows us to bring ‘new ideas, stories, even people, into existence,’ is a particularly exciting way to think about it.   Whether it’s a poem, a story, a memoir, creative writing has an infinite number of possibilities. As David Morley points out, 'we should…

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Flash Fiction

‘Oh no!’ I hear you groan, ‘What on earth does a bloke who writes kid’s books know about writing flash fiction? And what the heck is flash fiction anyway?’

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