An Introduction to Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre this autumn … by Jan Moran Neil It’s been a strange and interesting return to teaching Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre this autumn. After twelve years of running these courses I left in 2000 to set up my own Creative Ink […]
‘An introduction to Creative Writing at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre …’ by Jan Moran Neil
26/11/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Writing Dates for Your Diary …
07/11/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Writing Dates for your Diary … with Jan Moran Neil Poetry with a Pen and a Passion – Highcrest Adult Learning Centre – Saturday 2nd March, 2024 Life Writing – A Gift for Your Grandchildren or for Posterity – Saturday 8th June, 2024 – Beaconsfield Writing Which Raises a Smile – Humour – Saturday 6th […]
Creative Writing Courses with Jan Moran Neil …
26/10/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Creative Writing Course with Jan Moran Neil …’ There are two places left on my 5-week Creative Writing course at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre beginning next Wednesday 1st November. To enrol go to studentenquiries@buckinghamshire.gov.uk Most writers have re-enrolled from the first few weeks. Lovely group. Email me if you want to find out more. […]
‘Alma Maters’
03/10/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Alma Maters …’ by Ms Paige Turner In one weekend I was invited to three of my four alma maters from which I graduated and hath flourished. The first was the Ark Oval Primary School – or as I knew it – Oval Road Primary – last Friday for their 150th Anniversary. The second was […]
‘To Market, to market …’ or ‘The Life of a Mayfly …’
15/09/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘To Market, To Market …’ by Ms Paige Turner So having spent months upgrading my laptop, buying recording equipment, recording my poetry collection ‘Red Lipstick & Revelations’, opening accounts with Amazon Audible, filling in all my details, finding the right pixels for my cover, uploading all my files, waiting for approval, I then realise that […]
‘The Long Road to Amazon Audible …’ or ‘Reading the Instructions …’
25/08/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Long Road to Amazon Audible …’ or ‘Reading the Instruction Booklet’ by Ms Paige Turner Seven months. It took seven months. February 2023. I listen into some samples of something called ‘Audible’ on Amazon and think – I can do that. I could even do that better. So, I found, through Adrian Spalding – […]
‘Dreary ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ …’
08/08/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Dreary ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ … by Ms Paige Turner Mister Justin Case and I booked a cruise during lockdown as we spent much time looking at travel brochures. We booked to go to Odessa in the Ukraine and Romania. Cyprus was also on the list – and I hadn’t been there – or the Ukraine. Well, […]
Creative Writing Sessions with moi – Autumn 2023 and Coming Full Circle …
28/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Creative Writing Adult Learning Sessions with moi – Autumn 2023 and Coming Full Circle … Wednesdays 1-3 pm at the Beaconsfield Adult Learning Centre, Wattleton Road. Wednesday 20th, 27th September and Wednesday 4th, 11th, 18th October. Can you believe it? This is where I began in 1989, thirty-four years ago. On Wednesdays 1-3 pm. Same […]
‘Free Education for All’ – The Ragged School Museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets opens its doors …
14/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
Free Education for All – The Ragged School Museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets opens its doors … as published in ‘The Educator’ magazine In June 2023, the Ragged School Museum opened its ancient doors on Copperfield Road, Mile End but its journey from being the largest Victorian ragged school in London which […]
The Cost of Living …
02/07/2023 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘The Cost of Living …’ by Ms Paige Turner It isn’t often I veer from the written and spoken word as theme for my blog but my dear three blog readers, I have to share the story of the scallops with you. Mister Justin Case and I decided to treat ourselves to a sushi takeaway […]