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MLitt in Writing Practice and Study Showcase (2019-20)

We are so proud of our postgraduate students who are graduating this week with an MLitt in Writing Practice and Study. We will publish extracts from their dissertation project over the whole of this week in November in celebration. Read and admire...
Featured image of Writing Practice and Study Showcase 2020: “Through the Looking Glass” (excerpt) by Victoria Lothian

Writing Practice and Study Showcase 2020: “Through the Looking Glass” (excerpt) by Victoria Lothian

I loved to watch my mother smoke. She looked like Lauren Bacall as she lifted the lighter to the cigarette that perched on her parted lips, then she’d flick the gas spark, a perfect flame igniting the crisp white tobacco paper. As she drew a long deep inhale her cheeks became concave with the power Read More

Featured image of WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2020 SHOWCASE: “THE BREEDING CAGES” (EXCERPT) BY WANDA MCGREGOR

WRITING PRACTICE AND STUDY 2020 SHOWCASE: “THE BREEDING CAGES” (EXCERPT) BY WANDA MCGREGOR

Aince upon a day my mither said to me: Dinna cleip and dinna rype And dinna tell a lee. For gin ye cleip a craw will name ye, And gin ye rype a daw will shame ye; And a snail will heeze its hornies out And hike them round and round about Gin ye tell Read More

Featured image of Writing Practice and Study 2020 Showcase: “All Tied Up” and “Hooded” by Collette Cowie

Writing Practice and Study 2020 Showcase: “All Tied Up” and “Hooded” by Collette Cowie

All Tied Up The rain falls in diagonal lines, bouncing off the roof of the car in continuous percussion. Water streams down the sloped driveway towards the house where the front door opens and a figure steps out. A man’s boot lands heavily in a puddle, sending water flying. “For fuck’s sake,” he exclaims eyeing Read More

Featured image of Writing Practice and Study 2020 Showcase: “Under the Weather” by Rebecca Baird

Writing Practice and Study 2020 Showcase: “Under the Weather” by Rebecca Baird

Under The Weather – KT Tunstall (2004) /on homesickness I inherited my voice from my mum. On the phone, no one can tell us apart. Even my gran, her mother, used to mistake us. She would talk to me for a whole five or six minutes before asking ‘what’s Rebecca doing?’ She thought she was Read More

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