Hello everybody! After a quick hiatus, the MSt weblog is now again with updates from the brand new course group: Clare, Amal, Kate, Mary Jean and Barney. We’re kicking off with an entry from Mary Jean, our new Departmental Lecturer in Poetry. Here’s what they’ve been studying and researching currently: What I’m Studying Now Stone…
The Tejumola Olaniyan Inventive Writers-in-Residence Fellowship is bringing African Literary Legacy! In commemoration of the esteemed Nigerian Professor Tejumola Olaniyan and his profound contributions to African literature and significant idea, The Africa Institute proudly pronounces the opening of functions for its third cohort of the Tejumola Olaniyan Inventive Writers-in-Residence Fellowship for the tutorial 12 months…
Writing about your life can really feel daunting. It has the potential to unlock outdated recollections, convey feelings to the floor, and be a revealing course of. Nevertheless, it’s due to these components that it may also be splendidly empowering. Right here at Derbyshire Writing College, we consider everybody has a narrative and life writing…
Typically we don’t see a query coming. A couple of weeks in the past, I used to be visiting my pal Linda, who I’ve written about right here earlier than. She has reminiscence loss, and one night at dinner she turned to me, eyebrows raised, and stated: “Chris — what do you wish to be…
Let’s welcome again month-to-month columnist Kelley Manner as she shares with us “Do I Have to Register My Copyright?” Take pleasure in! *** After I current on copyright points throughout my talking engagements, I’m steadily requested about copyright registration and whether or not they should register their copyright. The reality is, you technically don’t should…
We needed to rejoice the successes in 2024 of three MSt alumni – Christine Anne Foley, Daisy Johnson and Jingan Younger. Christine’s novel Our bodies was one in every of final 12 months’s most acclaimed debuts; Daisy’s newest assortment of quick tales, The Resort, additional solidified her status as one of many main writers of…
The Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers is now open! The fellowship goals to afford writers uninterrupted time to concentrate on their work at an residence in Carson McCuller’s childhood dwelling in Columbus, Georgia, free from the distractions of day by day life and different duties. The Marguerite and Lamar Fellowship for Writers is…
Why is Self-publishing a Good Concept? Self-publishing has been round for lots longer than you would possibly suppose. Many well-known authors start their creator careers with self-publishing, and what’s fascinating is seeing how this development is returning. Many bestselling and large ‘historically revealed’ authors are choosing a hybrid mannequin. Mixing between self-publishing and conventional publishing…
A hand holding a sparkler in low mild. There’s a deep false impression I hear on a regular basis about being a author. It sounds one thing like this: You’re in a swell of artistic momentum and it feels incredible. Concepts are pouring down on you. You’re feeling enlivened, emboldened, assured, clear. You…
At present we welcome a brand new visitor author to Author’s Enjoyable Zone, Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer who’s stopping by to speak with us about “Ought to You Write Cultures That Are Not Your Personal?” Take pleasure in! *** A controversial query within the creator group is: Are you allowed to put in writing about cultures…