The Journal

CREATIVITY: Beechmore Books Announces Free Creative Writing Competition
The vegan journal brand encourages aspiring, established and ‘just-for-fun’ writers everywhere to make time to flex the reflective parts of their brains, and enter their short story / poetry contest.

Beechmore Guides: 10 London Coffee Shops To Write In This Weekend
Category: Culture
Beechmore Guides: 10 London Coffee Shops To Write In This Weekend
Beechmore Editor
If you’re like me, you seem to spend your lifetime looking for places that inspire you to wile a...

3 Ways To Broaden Your Imagination
Dreaming is Good For You
It’s not just writers, artists, and musicians who benefit from expanding their imaginations. Imagination is for everyone, and science agrees with us. When you use your ...

creative flow
Staying Creative in a Challenging Landscape
If you feel like your creativity has taken a nosedive this year, you aren’t alone. We unpack five ways you can stay creative even as lockdown begins to ease.

The Gift of Encouraging Creativity
For my thirteenth birthday, a grandmother figure gave me a five-year journal. I’ve received some pretty generous and wacky gifts over the years, but I think that one sticks out as my absolute favou...

capturing light
What is the Fascination with Shadows?
Is it that they tell part of a story without giving away the whole picture? Or that they are mysterious, not quite representing things as we see them? Or is it simply that as a creative and a phot...

creative process
When to Share Your Work… and When Not To
Like any writer worth their salt, I have a slew of rejections languishing in my inbox. If you’re planning to make a career in the arts, unless you tumble out of the womb and bump into New York’s mo...

artist’s journal
I See Life in Colour: why does my journal have to be in black and white?
I once found a letter that was written by an aunt during the 1940’s. It was typed beautifully and explained to the recipient that the blitz in London wasn’t affecting their spirits or their work. T...

exposure
The Joy of Privacy
When I was little, one of my parents’ friends climbed Everest. I remember sitting with a small crowd in somebody’s dark living room, watching a slide-show of his photos. There were clunky transitio...