May 2015 · Blog

Will Self and the Creative writing PhD

In his piece on the Death of the Novel in The Guardian, Will Self comments on his own PhD Creative Writing student: Creative writing programmes burgeoning throughout our universities are ‘a self-perpetuating and self-financing literary set-aside scheme…

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Sep 2007 · Books

The Write Guide: Mentoring

Written with Sara Maitland, THE guide for anyone seeking to get involved in mentoring for creative writing. Pat Barker writes of the book: “Mentoring is an important area of development for writers. I’m pleased…

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