Mastering Life’s Major Events by Ms Paige Turner I was all set to write a homily this bi-month about graduating from the University of Cambridge last weekend for my Masters’ degree in Creative Writing. The Master of my college St Edmund’s, gave a delightful speech about how, as Cambridge graduates, we will change the world. […]
Mastering Life’s Major Events …
20/07/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Water, Water Everywhere …
02/07/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘Water, Water everywhere’ by Ms Paige Turner. I think I’m entitled to a bit of water imagery this month for three reasons. Firstly, I’ve just returned from lecturing aboard Cruise & Maritime’s Magellan. Miss Trial and I did a two week serious bonding on a Baltics cruise. It rained most of the time, especially in […]
Cliches …
11/06/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Cliches by Ms Paige Turner. Proust wasn’t into them … The Creative Ink autumn Tuesday morning ‘Get Inspired’ course begins on October 4th for 5 weeks at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield. Half term is Tuesday 25th October. The fee is £170 to include up to 3000 word assessment/edit and proof read, coffee and biscuits, update […]
Flash Fiction …
07/06/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Flash Fiction by Ms Paige Turner Proust wasn’t into it. The Creative Ink autumn Tuesday morning ‘Get Inspired’ course begins on October 4th for 5 weeks at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield. Half term is Tuesday 25th October. The fee is £170 to include up to 3000 word assessment/edit and proof read, coffee and […]
For the Queen’s 90th …
23/05/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Dialogue with the Queen Last night I dreamt the Queen said to me, “Oh Janet, weren’t you in the crowd at Jubilee in … nineteen seventy seven? Wasn’t it that little town in Devon?” “Falmouth,” I replied. “Ah yes, and in nineteen eighty two at Regent’s Park, we remember asking you – ‘how has been […]
An Honest Thief …
11/05/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
An Honest Thief – by Ms Paige Turner Is there ever one? Or is it an oxymoron? I was asking you to look for one (an oxymoron not an honest thief) on my last blog as I had said phishing for emails or contacts was a sin but then I had written a feature for […]
‘To thine own self be true.’
24/04/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
‘To thine own self be true …’ Blog 136 by Ms Paige Turner It was an odd thing for such a lecturing old woman of a Polonius to say: ‘To thine own self be true.’ I’ve never been quite sure of what it means. What’s ‘myself’? And what involves ‘being true’? I guess in current […]
Beyond the Bard …
10/04/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Beyond the Bard … by Ms Paige Turner Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the supposed birthday and dying day of William Shakespeare on April 23rd, Writing Magazine www.writers-online.co.uk are publishing the first of my two features: ‘Beyond the Bard’ in their May edition. It’s on sale on the High Street. This month demonstrates how we […]
The Power of the Garage Wall …
31/03/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
The Power of the Garage Wall … Blog 134 by Ms Paige Turner ‘Dolly Pop and the Garage Wall’, one of the poems from my collection: Red Lipstick and Revelations has been published in South Africa’s New Contrast poetry magazine/April edition www.newcontrast.net I’m very proud to be starting a publishing career in South Africa – […]
Tomorrow …
15/03/2016 // by Jan Moran Neil
Tomorrow … Performances of ‘A President in Waiting …’ took place at the Masambe Theatre, Baxter this last weekend and I had the privilege of taking part and reading my sonnet ‘Birds in the Hand’ commended in the Oxford University’s poetry competition. There was an open forum after each performance to discuss the possible fate […]