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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers: February 2015
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers. Department of English, University of Chester. Friday, 27 February 2015. Visit to Chester by Novelist George Green. On 24 February, Creative Writing students on the module Writing the Past spent a seminar and workshop with author of historical novels, George Green. George’s novels include Hawk. The visit was organised by Dr Ian Seed. Friday, 20 February 2015. Flash, 7.2 (October 2014). 61 Davis’s impressive Collected Stories. Is enthusiastically r...
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers: Visit by Francesca Haig, Author of The Fire Sermon
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers. Department of English, University of Chester. Monday, 2 February 2015. Visit by Francesca Haig, Author of The Fire Sermon. In January 2015, Francesca Haig shared her experience of the publishing world, with helpful details and advice about publishing, literary agents, and publicity. Francesca’s The Fire Sermon. But remember that you will not have the input of an editorial team or the support of a big publishing house. How to Write Flash Fiction'.
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: March 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Tuesday, 18 March 2014. 175th Anniversary Quilt: March 2014 Update. At last, all 25 blocks have been stitched together! Six members of the group met up at the Quilter’s Trading Post on 1. March, armed with pins, tape measures and sewing machines, ready to put the blocks together. The Quilter’s Trading Post is an Aladdin’s cave of quilting fabrics, notions and pure inspiration for the creative quilter! Inside the Quilter’s Trading Post. March and left our piec...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: A Textile Story by Grace Woodger
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Sunday, 31 May 2015. A Textile Story by Grace Woodger. Frances exclaimed. 'What ever have you done? Mildred looked up from the drawing room floor, gesturing helplessly to the quilt on the ground before her. One corner was badly burned, a good few inches of fabric eaten away, and the surrounding squares were singed and stained with soot. Grandmother's quilt, Fannie. Look at it. Mother will never forgive me.'. How ever did it happen? Said Frances, incredulous.
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: April 2015
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Thursday, 2 April 2015. Suffragette Dress by Lucy Ella Hawkins. At the Dressing/Undressing the Victorians: Reading Clothes in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Contexts. Conference at the University of Chester (28th March 2015), Fiona McGrath’s paper on ‘Discourses of Fashion: Articulating a Subversive Feminist Voice through Clothing at the fin de siècle. However, a more restrained type of Edwardian dress was worn by some women’s suffrage leaders in a deliber...
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers: November 2014
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers. Department of English, University of Chester. Friday, 28 November 2014. New Collection By Lecturer Ashley Chantler. Ashley Chantler has published a new collection of flashes (short-short stories) and poems, titled Love and Other Problems. Http:/ www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine. And I realised that I had written various pieces that would work together as a short collection, to be published as a pamphlet.’. Love and Other Problems. On 17 November ...
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers: January 2014
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Creative Writing: News and Resources for Aspiring Writers. Department of English, University of Chester. Monday, 6 January 2014. New E-Zine Founded By Creative Writing Student. Joe Pickard, a Creative Writing student in the English Department, has founded a new online magazine for poetry and short-short stories. The Alchemy of the Words. Is ‘dedicated to the promotion of unknown writers and unpublished writing’. Submissions of poems and short-shorts of up to 300 words are welcome. How to Write a Novel'.
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: Events
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Textile Stories/ Quilt Stories. A Study Day at the University of Chester. RICS Building, Riverside Campus. Saturday 25th April 2015, 9.30am -4.30pm. The third Textile Study Day will be devoted to the stories told by quilts. Our speakers. Christine Garwood (Textile Artist), ‘Painting With Stitches’. Jacqui Hyman (Textile Restoration Studio) ‘Conserving Quilts’. Jacqui is a textile historian and conservationist. She runs the Textile Restoration Studio:. At the ...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: Reading Testament of Youth
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Monday, 2 March 2015. Reading Testament of Youth. The Drama of Costume Reading Group. Saturday 21st February 2015. The fourth meeting of the ‘Drama of Costume’ Reading Group met to discuss Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth. Vera Brittain in her V.A.D. uniform during WWI. Roland Leighton, Vera Brittain’s fiancé, killed at the front in 1915. Roland Leighton’s grave (photograph taken by Jackie Davies). Here Alicia Vikander plays the role of Vera. One of...
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life: July 2014
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Textile Stories: The Fabric of Everyday Life. Sunday, 13 July 2014. Reading Day, 5. The third ‘Drama of Costume’ reading group discussion was held on 5. July We talked about Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre. 1847), and most participants welcomed the opportunity to read the novel (or reread it) and watch some of the many screen adaptations. We considered three well-known screen adaptations of Jane Eyre. Firstly, the 1943 film, Jane Eyre. The costume designer, Michael O’Connor, has helped to conve...