It’s so said that Carrie Fisher is no longer with us. She took the character of Princess Leia – an archetypal 1977 damsel in distress – and brought her to a higher place. This [...]
Kurt Vonnegut says every story has a certain shape and many stories share the same shape. These shapes can be found by tracing the ups and downs of the protagonist’s journey—or “the [...]
Our own Suzy Greaves talks with Cheryl Strayed. ‘Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. [...]
Really excited that we’re beginning our new writing ’16-’17 year at The Big Writing Club this Autumn – with fantastic new successes to talk about from our resident tutors. [...]
I am very excited to announce that The Big Writing Club is starting on the 12 week course The Artist’s Way starting on the 7th March. I take part in the 12 week process every year – and it [...]
Elizabeth is the Associate editor at Psychologies magazine. She has extensive experience as a freelance writer, editor and staff writer. She knows the profession from both sides of the fence and [...]
Lorna V is a journalist, journalism lecturer, writing coach and writer-performer. She has written Psychologies magazine’s first branded book Real Confidence (published by Capstone/Wiley in [...]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. I’m a great believer in easing ourselves gently into the New Year. We often set ourselves up to fail by giving ourselves unrealistic writing goals. So [...]
December 7th 2015 Masterclass 8-9pm (via conference call) How to make a living as a food and travel writer with Michael Booth Michael is the award-winning, best-selling author of five works of [...]
We are delighted to announce that the next Big Writing Club master class is with Caroline Green on 2nd November. Caroline is an award -winning author of fiction for young people. Her first novel, [...]