CREATIVITY: Beechmore Books Announces Free Creative Writing Competition

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

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

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 ima...
Staying Creative in a Challenging Landscape
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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

The Gift of Encouraging Creativity

For my thirteenth birthday, a grandmother figure gave me a five-year journal. Among the myriad of gifts received over the years, this one holds a special place as my absolute favorite. It became a ...
What is the Fascination with Shadows?
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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...
When to Share Your Work… and When Not To
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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...
I See Life in Colour: why does my journal have to be in black and white?
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I See Life in Colour: why does my journal have to be in black and white?

Discovering a letter from the 1940s, written by an aunt, opened a window to her world for me. It wasn’t just the words she chose but the spirit behind them that painted a picture of her resilience ...
The Joy of Privacy
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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. That was how social media u...