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Creative Digest #15: Adventures in Audiobooks, and forthcoming publications
The latest edition of our departmental Substack
Jul 1
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Jonathan Gibbs
and
Joe Thomas
3
April 2025
Creative Digest #14: Spring Reading
The latest edition of our departmental Substack
Apr 10
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Joe Thomas
,
Rebecca Tamás
, and
Jessica Andrews
1
March 2025
Creative Digest #13: On the Representation of Trauma in Fiction; Managing Time; Why Write or, Fail Better
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at the representation of trauma in novel writing, managing the timings of a Creative Writing MA…
Mar 10
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Deepa Anappara
,
Joe Thomas
, and
Jonathan Gibbs
1
December 2024
Creative Digest #12: On Endings, A Review and a Remembrance, Fiction and Politics
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at how to end a novel, an appreciation of John Burnside, and thoughts on writing politics.
Dec 11, 2024
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Deepa Anappara
,
Rebecca Tamás
, and
Joe Thomas
1
November 2024
Creative Digest #11: recent reading and future writing
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at two recently published novels and the very future of the novel itself
Nov 5, 2024
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Jonathan Gibbs
,
Jessica Andrews
, and
Simon Okotie
June 2024
Creative Digest #10: Scope in the short story; the contemporary Bildungsroman; growing out of Auster
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at lessons from two recently deceased masters of their crafts, and how the Bildungsroman stays…
Jun 5, 2024
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Joe Thomas
and
Rebecca Tamás
1
May 2024
Creative Digest #9: Keeping perspective; in defence of the adverb; licking, brushing and pinching
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at how to keep a level head as a published writer, relearning a 'taste' for adverbs, and lessons…
May 1, 2024
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Deepa Anappara
and
Joe Thomas
1
March 2024
Creative Digest #8: Environmental poetry; lessons from playwriting; my favourite semi-colon
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at how poetry engages with the climate crisis, what novelists can learn from dramatic writing, and…
Mar 27, 2024
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Jessica Andrews
and
Rebecca Tamás
1
February 2024
Creative Digest #7: What diversity entails; the personal and the historical; 'the story is not elsewhere'
The latest edition of our departmental Substack looks at how to think about diversity and decolonisation, the process of aligning fiction to personal…
Feb 28, 2024
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Joe Thomas
,
Deepa Anappara
, and
Jessica Andrews
1
January 2024
Creative Digest #6: What are 'rocks'? – and three recent takes on the historical novel
The first edition of our departmental Substack for 2024 looks at a familiar maxim about plot structure, and three recent but very different historical…
Jan 31, 2024
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Jonathan Gibbs
,
Joe Thomas
, and
Rebecca Tamás
2
December 2023
Creative Digest #5: end-of-the-year round-up: favourite books and teaching highlights
The fifth edition of our departmental Substack gives City's Creative Writing lecturers the chance to look back over their year for reading and teaching…
Dec 13, 2023
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Deepa Anappara
,
Jonathan Gibbs
,
Joe Thomas
,
Jessica Andrews
, and
Rebecca Tamás
2
November 2023
Creative Digest #4: workshop tales; against vaping; disrupting the status quo
The fourth edition of our departmental Substack looks at good and bad approaches to leading a workshop, how vapes fail writers, and a useful short…
Nov 29, 2023
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Deepa Anappara
,
Jonathan Gibbs
, and
Joe Thomas
1
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