What We’ve Been Reading this Month Pelican25 April 2018 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino If you were looking for a slightly confusing, low-key frustrating page turner to occupy you on a rainy ... Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments57 views
Scribblers Festival: Words with Katherine Dorrington Pelican16 April 2018 Scribblers is a new annual festival celebrating children’s literature. It has been developed as part of FORM’s Creative Learning Program, which aims to equi... Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments56 views
Don’t be Frightened by Doorstopper Books Pelican10 April 2018 To the average reader, Victorian era literature can be suffocating. Victorian literature has a certain reputation for overly long and boring books in which poli... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments63 views
Wake up Sheeple: Pelican Tried to Stop Me Publishing the Full Text of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemmingway in Size One font Pelican9 March 2018 By Ernest Hemingway by Hugh Hutchison EntertainmentLiterature and Creative Writing0 Comments420 views
How to have a graphic summer Pelican12 February 2018 Graphic Literature (aka comics for grownups) now makes up one of the most exciting and dynamic genres around. Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments51 views
My Hugo Must Be Acknowledged Pelican2 November 2015 The Hugo and Nebula awards for Sci-Fi and Fantasy are held annually, open to the public and decided upon by popular vote. Past winners include Heinlein, Phillip... Literature and Creative Writing2 Comments17 views
0.2 Revival by Stephen King Pelican27 July 2015 In keeping with the theme of firsts, this was the first time I’d actually read a Stephen King novel. I wasn’t disappointed. I’ll be the first to admit tha... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments5 views
Little Pretty Pocket Books and Murderous Clones: The Dark and Puritanical Heritage of Kids’ Lit Pelican27 July 2015 It would be grossly naive to think children’s stories are undeserving of serious consideration. Prevailingly though, they’re seen as the ‘paddling pool’... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments4 views
