Autofiction
Autofiction, perhaps better called autobiographical fiction, has become a genre of writing in vogue. The term was coined in 1977 but the genre is much older. It...
Author: Terry
Novella-in-flash
New class has started. It is the sister course to the one I’ve done already but is longer established with a more experienced group many of whom are publi...
The Poet’s Revolt: A Brief Guide to the Prose Poem
When I restart the creative writing class this September I will be joining the advanced group. The first session will be on prose poetry in preparation for thos...
Michael Borrowdale
I’m currently re-reading The Sea, The Sea, the 1978 Booker winner, Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel. I read it over 40 years ago! Since my recently complet...
The Art of Memory
We were sitting in an Indian restaurant in Brighton. The party was split over two tables as there was not room for all 18 to sit at one. The parents, grandparen...
The Eulogy
At our last creative writing class we were asked to read a ‘performance’ piece in the allotted 5 minutes. Our tutor encourages us to take part in op...
Prose poetry
This was a group exercise to try and list the main characteristics of poetry as a form of writing. This is what we came up with. It is structured visually on th...
The Great Mystico
This was a writing class exercise where we were given 10 words that had to be used in the text – bit, draw, flex, perilous, bubble, corner, rancid, pound, high,...
A valley through time
For a year now he had been walking the tow path and exploring the Aire Valley between Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall, a 5 mile stretch of woodland, fields, river...