The Curved House

29/05/2019

Based on activities our Visual Verse: Online Anthology of Art and Words activities, these free creative resources for teens aged 12+ aim to give students an experience of language and literacy that they can really make their own.

Download them free here >> https://curvedhousekids.com/free-creative-writing-resources-for-teens/

Made in collaboration with FXP Festival 2019.

Download our latest free teaching resource for students aged 12+. We’ve created a set of creative activities that use art and photography to inspire creative writing and storytelling in the classroom. This free resource has been created in partnership with FXP Festival, a STEM initiative based on ...

12/02/2019

📣 Last day to get yourself tickets to Byte the Book's Confluence event.

What is Confluence, you ask? Confluence is a coming together of all the strands and aspects that make Byte The Book special. It's about hearing new ideas, meeting new people from a diverse range of industries, finding new ways of working and connecting with new collaborators.

Check out the full schedule and learn more about it here:

A conference about storytelling and technology, London, Feb 2019

24/10/2018

"The work you throw away is probably the most important work because you have to do it to get to the work you don't throw away," author Sarah Moss on first drafts and false starts.

https://youtu.be/cujZIW8DfXY Granta

Sarah Moss on how her first drafts are like a dressmaker's maquettes, the research that precedes every new project she undertakes, and the importance of read...

17/10/2018

Calling all members of The Society of Authors! Kristen is running her LAST ever web surgeries on November 21st.

Get help with everything from:
• Setting up a blog
• Updating your current website
• Learning about social networking
• Creating new content for your site

Book now to secure a spot >>

*IMPORTANT*: These sessions will take place at Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA | Directions You are booking a one hour appointment only and are not required to attend for the full day. 9.45am | 11am | 12.15pm | 1.45pm | 3pm | 4.15pm (hourly appointments) Don't miss out on our exclusiv...

05/10/2018

The Nine Dots Prize is a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues and they have just announced their latest question, 'Is there still no place like home?'.

Entrants have until Jan 21st, 2019 to submit a 3,000-word response, winner receives $100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas. Time to get thinking! 🧢💭✒️

https://ninedotsprize.org/

16/09/2018

What does immersing yourself in a book do to your brain? 🧠💥

Only connect. –E.M. Forster The act of taking on the perspective and feelings of others is one of the most profound, insufficiently heralded contributions of the deep-reading processes. Proust’s de…

17/07/2018

The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2018/19 is now open to submissions, with brilliant guest judges Aki Schilz, Philip Langeskov and Jonathan Gibbs.

Click below for full details (including low-earner submissions):

Key dates: Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2018Longlist announcement: 11 January 2019Shortlist announcement: 1 February 2019Prize-winner announcement: 22 February 2019 

19/05/2018

Our fiction addiction: Why humans need stories http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180503-our-fiction-addiction-why-humans-need-stories?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter via BBC Culture

From fireside folk tales to Netflix dramas, narratives are essential to every society – and evolutionary theorists are now trying to figure out why, writes David Robson.

16/05/2018

BRB, just booking trips to all these places!

'10 of the world’s best book towns'

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/apr/26/10-worlds-best-book-towns-france-spain-south-korea-usa?CMP=share_btn_tw …

Book towns started with Hay-on-Wye; now there are communities around the world that celebrate the written word. In this extract from a new book, the author picks 10 to leaf through – and visit

04/05/2018

Decision follows string of sexual assault allegations made against husband of former member of the Swedish Academy

03/05/2018

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’

The bestselling author says she never wanted to become a voice for feminism, but refuses to abide by ‘language orthodoxy’

02/05/2018

Colin Grant: five books about the Windrush generation

Sam Selvon’s daring use of dialect, VS Naipaul’s ‘shipwrecked men’, and the imagined voices of passengers aboard boats bound for England