A Socially Useful Production of “The Participation Waltz” begins with The Lucas Plan, a radical proposal developed by workers at Lucas Industries in the UK in 1976 and was nominated for a Nobel Prize....

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Thoughts about becoming a writer - and how that works!

The academic year in the UK is rooted in the Victorian era of education for all but still having to abide by the Harvest and when the children were needed for work on the farms. So, the warmer months were out for schooling, but once the weather got colder and rainier, it was fine for them to have some education. …

This gorgeous cultural centre in Olhao is an absolute gem of a find and after my very first visit, I just wanted to move in and never leave! Republica 14 is the Cultural Association of Olhao, and it is housed in the gorgeous old building, that was a very grand house built in the mid 1700s, but moved into the ownership of Sociedade Recreativa Olhanense in 1932, who ran the society until around 2012.

Formerly based above a Notting Hill pub, the theatre earned a reputation for radical plays with new talent yet had a 100% loss of Arts Council England funding in 2022

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Just me bemoaning the loss of my favourite ever shop!

After really enjoying the Indie Novella writing your novel course earlier in the year, I've been accepted onto their short follow on course, which is the 4 weeks over August. Some of the same people are there and what has been great has been the generosity, kindness and critique of the group of writers on the course. Following the initial course, most of us joined a Whatsapp and email group and have been supporting each other across the year, and this has continued into this final short course, which has the aim of getting you ready for sending your novel out, and the considerations that need to be made.

A short reflection on the PRG Showcase at Edge Hill University on 17th June 2026

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As co-lead for the new Practice Research Group at Edge Hill University, I'm really excited that we are holding our first showcase with many of our brilliant colleagues on Wednesday 17th June, 12pm-5pm. We will be based at the marvellous EHU Arts Centre, where there will be installations, projections, performances, presentation and readings. I will be reading from the Creative Non-Fiction piece published last month in Antenna journal, called Going Home.

My first literary non-fiction piece called Going Home has been published in the journal Antenna from the University of Lisbon.

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FiN member Julia Clayton was runner- up in the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism 2026 . At the event at the Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury, she received what she called ‘a fun troph...

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I am really pleased that I have got another short story - The Only Place She Ever Lived - in the Memory edition of The Amphibian Magazine. I really like this magazine because it brings together such an eclectic collection of art, poetry and story, always themed, and the hard copies are beautifully produced. It is also a European journal, in English, so it is lovely to be in something that has contributions from across the continent.

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Well, it's flown by, the past nine weeks on the Indie Novella Course. And it has been fantastic, really great and really helpful to me as a writer. The areas it looks out aren't particularly innovative, plotting, pace, character, narrative voice etc, but sometimes you don't need innovative! When you're working on a project, sometimes you just need to be able to have weekly work set for you and to engage with a lesson that helps you concentrate on the writing rather than the million other things that happen every day.

On Tuesday 17th March, the EHU Fiction Writer's Network (FiN) event celebrated 20 years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, with founder of the prize Prof. Ailsa Cox, and two winners of the MA Prize, the brilliant Dr Carys Bray and the fantastic Dr Julia Clayton, with the second half of the event dedicated to last year's winner, Prof. Tessa Hadley, who read and took part in a fascinating Q&A with Ailsa and current convenor of the prize, award winning writer Sarah Schofield.

I am so proud to have co-written a chapter with Dawn Prescott, director of Lime Arts at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, on the project Create+. This was a passion project for Dawn, as it is the first NHS staff arts referral project in the UK, and it formed part of my British Academy Innovation Fellowship exploration of how we can embed arts into healthcare settings.

We will be celebrating 20 years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize at the Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, on March 17th starting at 7pm. The evening will see Prof. Ailsa Cox, the world’s only profe...