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Tim Lott: Award-winning novelist and writing teacher joins the team.
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
Have started, or want to start, writing a novel or memoir? Are you trying to finish a piece of fiction that is defeating you? Writing at book length is a daunting prospect – both in terms of the skills required and the commitment necessary to keep going through tricky patches and ‘writer’s block’. Now you […]
Charlotte Green: On Writing and Motherhood
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
On Writing and Motherhood In his essay Fires, Raymond Carver writes that, of everything, the greatest influences on his writing have been his children. Not because of who they are or what they meant to him, but because of the “unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction” they have caused him over the years. In effect, they […]
Charlotte Green: What is a story?
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
What is a story? To tell a story, American short story writer Flannery O’Connor once wrote, is “to create life with words”. It takes a supreme talent to write a story that can recreate life, but is that really the goal of any story? Do people not immerse themselves in fiction for the sole purpose […]
Embracing Rejection
Saturday, May 14th, 2016
Embracing Rejection Victoria Griffin Nobody likes rejection. Nobody approaches a crush and thinks, I really hope they shoot me down! It’s tough to put yourself on the line, and that’s exactly what you’re doing every time you submit your writing. It’s a piece of you, and having your work rejected often feels like being rejected […]
Luke Harding talk
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Oxfam Author Talk with Luke Harding Award winning Guardian journalist and author of the Snowden Files and WikiLeaks talks about his new book A Very Expensive Poison: the Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West Friday 13th May 12pm-1pm (refreshments from 11.30am) at the Quaker Meeting House, St Giles, OX1 3LW Tickets £5 available from the Oxfam Bookshop, […]
