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28 Dec 2016

Stephen Carver’s Top Five Books of 2016

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Writing this list is beginning to feel like a Christmas tradition, alongside the good single malt and the seasonal ghost story. As ever, reading for...

21 Dec 2016

Ashley Stokes’ Top Five Books of 2016

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Last Christmas we asked our tutors to compile an end-of-year list from the books they had read that year, one refreshingly unconstrained to books published...

21 Dec 2016

It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This

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Our Head of Online, Stephen Carver, on How to Write a Novel in 2016 So, I’ve come to end of another year of teaching at...

8 May 2016

Writing Prompt: The Vanisher

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There’s an anecdote told by Eudora Welty in her autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings (First Harvard University Press, 1995). It provides a perfect ‘glimpse moment’ that...

4 May 2016

5 Ways to Prepare for Writing a Novel

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The first inkling that you’ve had an idea that could be a NOVEL!!! can be an unsettling experience whether you’re a new writer or an...

3 May 2016

What can you expect from an Unthank introductory level course?

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Sarah Bower talks about our evening class An Introduction to Writing FictionÂ People come to creative writing classes for all sorts of reasons. They...

27 Apr 2016

Write Freely and See What Happens

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Stephen Carver on Teaching ‘How to Write a Novel’ Online Last week, I brought another USW How to Write a NovelÂ course to an end, after...

25 Apr 2016

‘How to a Write a Novel’ and What it Did for Me

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‘Comprehensive, Instructive and most of all, Enjoyable’ Jacqueline Harmon talks about How to Write a Novel OnlineÂ I’ll admit that I was in two minds...

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