Literary – Page 19 – All Across the Arts

Exclusive interview for Sidetracks And Detours: delivering APPLIED ARTS with Jeff Sleeman

I think my focus at the moment is on the library film, which is called Between The Lines and rolling that out on tour sometime in the summer.

education, Literary

FROM PIGS TO POETRY AND LITERATURE

So, at the end of a working day with the pigs I would cycle ten miles over to Gloucester, to spend an evening learning French with a student base, mainly, of florid, beautiful girls with their Cheltenham-style accents.

Literary, Music

ON APOSTROPHE´S AND COMMAS,,,,,,,,

He began ´writing the song and the first thing that came out was 'Who gives a xxxx about an Oxford comma?'" He stated that the song ´is more about not giving a fuck than about Oxford commas´.

Literary, Music

ACCORDION CRIMES ACCORDING TO ANNIE

The ending, then, should reflect for the reader some element of value or importance in the telling of this ending among the possible myriad of stories that might have been told.´

Literary

LATE WRITER WAS ONCE A SECRET READER

Several of his novels were adapted into movies, including Dark Of The Sun (1968), about a band of mercenaries hunting for diamonds during the Congo Crisis; Gold (1974), which starred Roger Moore as the general manager of a South African mine; and Shout At The Devil” (1976), with Moore and Lee Marvin, who became a fishing buddy.

AATA, Literary, Poetry

CREATIVITY BACK ON THE ´WRITE´ PATH

Lanzarote Creative Writing Group, meanwhile, continues to fulfil exercises in genres such as flash fiction and generally create pieces of 500 to 1,500 words. I remember from my time with the group, too, that there was nothing to frighten the horses. Prospective members can be frightened off by technical literary terms but the remit of the group is to, first and foremost, simply enjoy putting pen to paper.

Literary

NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING & GOODREADS

I am particularly looking forward to reading the an encyclopeadic work edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith. The volume is designed for school classrooms, and having worked as a peripatetic creative writing facilitator in both primary and secondary education in the UK and The Canary islands for almost thirty years, I keep a close eye on the literary and creative content on the literature curricula.