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Creative Writing
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BY ROLINE GALVAN It was written in big red letters on my paper: “USE SIMPLE SENTENCES.” The first thing
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BY NIKKY LEE “Kill your adverbs.” This advice came from thriller writer John Harman. I was eighteen, in my first
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BY HEINRICH VAN DER WALT “You know, you should write this stuff down,” Anton said. We were sitting on
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Alex Smith’s most recent novel ‘Devilskein & Dearlove’ is a YA Fantasy, described by the ‘Sunday Times’ as “a magical
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Helen Brain is the author of 30 books for children, an adult memoir and many short stories. In 1998
Karen Jeynes is a well-known, award-winning playwright whose work includes “Laying Blame”, “sky too big”, “Don’t Mention Sex”, “Kiss
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When Lotta received her ‘Local Hero’ award in 2014, she celebrated it with lime and soda rather than bubbly. Lotta
Susan Williams has been the managing director of Prose & Comms – a communications company – for over a decade.
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Sonny Whitelaw has enjoyed a successful career as a writer for more than thirty years. Her work as a photojournalist
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