As promised a few weeks ago here is another excerpt from the Jacqueline Wilson interview I filmed along with Livi Michael. Here Jacqueline talks about her career from writing in exercise books as a young girl through her Tracey Beaker success and beyond. By her own count she has now written almost 100 books!
Recently I had the great pleasure of filming an interview with children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. Jacqueline has sold over 25 million books in the UK alone and was the most popular library book author of the last decade. You can see some of her 15,000 strong book collection behind her in the interview. Jacqueline...
OCA Creative Writing tutor Liz Cashdan was in the office a few weeks ago. and we took the opportunity to record her reading two of her poems. Of particular interest is that Liz traveled to Iceland Last year with another OCA Tutor, Pat Hodson whose Herbal Notebook was featured on WeAreOCA a couple of...
OCA Creative Writing tutor Nina Milton talks about finding your voice. Paul Vincent and Gareth Dent discuss post-production.
Pat Borthwick, poet and creative writing tutor was in the office this week so we took the opportunity to record her reading Katya from her recent collection Admiral FitzRoy’s Barometer. Katya was the winner of an Amnesty International award in 2005.
Jane Rogers from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo. Jane Rogers, Course Leader for Creative Writing was in the office last week, so we took the opportunity to ask her what she was working on and what she was reading. She had some interesting tips on how to avoid your work being adapted...
For my first post, I’m taking a tentative step into a quite divisive subject; the increasing domination of technology in our lives, specifically in relation to the arts. The fact that you’re reading this on a computer screen might predetermine your opinion on the matter to some extent, but I’ve found through reading posts...
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