By Mathew Lopez-Bland Having just failed his graduation exam for the third time, Naruto watches on as the rest of his classmates celebrate g...

By Sharon Tyers The Leicester Seamstress My mother was a sock linker in a hosiery factory in Leicester for forty years. Sometimes she called...

For my MA Creative Writing Dissertation last year I intended to write for the Young Adult market, classified as readers of twelve to eightee...

By Kirsten Arcadio The philosopher Yuval Noah Harari claims that "our future is in the hands of the social and digital media giants...

About The Place and the Writer , ed. Marshall Moore and Sam Meekings The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore a...

By Thilsana Gias My MA Creative Writing dissertation consisted of the first few chapters of a Young Adult novel set around 1990, dur...

Dr Sara Read is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Her research area is the cultural representations of women, bodies, an...

Congratulations to Laurie Cusack ,who   has just successfully completed his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester.  L...

By Lee Wright On Wednesday 8th May 2019, the first ever "Dissertation Day" took place, as part of the MA in Creative Writing...

By Dan Powell “The End is Nigh!" by Mikey ,  licensed under CC BY 2.0 Overview: Preclosure sentences are those sentences with...

By Corinne Fowler The Centre for New Writing (CNW) has been awarded Best Cultural Impact for its work on literary development. The C...