A quick reminder that Witch Week begins in roughly three weeks time. This runs from Hallowe’en to Bonfire Night, an event first begun by Lory Hess on The Emerald City Book Review, and is an annual series of guest posts.
Inspired by a fantasy by Diana Wynne Jones (called, naturally, Witch Week) this year’s event features Gothick as a theme, the perfect choice for this season.
This year my co-curator Lizzie Ross is hosting (I hosted last year) and I will be pointing you to her blog LizzieRossWriter.com for the posts: here’s her advance notice of what’s to come. Offerings lined up cover a range of literary areas, including a group read of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, but there’s much, much more!
In other news, this arrived in the post this morning, a Certificate of Higher Education in Creative Writing Studies from Aberystwyth University
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The Graveyard Book is amazing. As is Coraline.
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They’re both brilliant, Nicola, but I think The Ocean at the End of the Lane is even better! Still, Gaiman does write vivid villains: the man Jack, the Other Mother with her button eyes …
My review of Ashworth is scheduled for tomorrow, by the way, if you’re interested!
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Ooooh, the other mother. Amazing. And yes! Ashworth!
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Congratulations! And the Witch Week sounds fun (I speak as someone who loves DWJ) though I suspect I shall run out of time and not be able to join in…
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To be fair, though it’s inspired by Diana Wynne Jones’s book, Witch Week doesn’t always feature her work; it did last year but I think there may only be a passing mention this time. And thank you!
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Congratulations Chris!
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Cheers, Cathy! 🙂
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Congratulations Chris. Always good to get the certificate. And a bilingual one too!
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Diolch yn fawr iawn, Gert, rwy’n cytuno, mae’n dda cael!
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Congratulations Chris. Coincidentally I studied for my degree in Information and Library Studies at Aberystwyth as a distance learner and have fond memories of my annual summer school there.
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This course didn’t involve a summer school (we just had to complete the requisite number of modules, including three core components) but imagine that those schools would’ve been something to look forward to!
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Many congratulations, Chris. I see you’ve been using these months of lockdown very wisely. 👨🎓
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Thanks, Paula! If you’re referring to the certificate, though, I fear that this was the result of five years weekly attendance, mostly two terms a year, and the required number of modules were completed by Christmas last year, well before lockdown! But I’ve missed the live interaction in classes, online doesn’t do it for me.
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A very nice certificate indeed 🙂 Congratulations, Chris!
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Dzięki, Piotrek, it’s always nice to have a certificate, even if it’s just for doing something fun like creative writing!
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Congratulations! Will you continue your studies?
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I intend to, even though the modules don’t count towards the equivalent of a second year of a degree course! I shan’t start again though until the new year, things are a bit up and down at the moment (to put it mildly).
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Congrats! What’s next on your plate, Chris? Teaching some fledgling writers? 😀
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No, my teaching days are over, Ola, but in theory I’ll start honing up my creative writing skills and produce something to set the literary world alight … 😁 In the meantime I hope to return to classes and take more classes — if and when it’s safe of course!
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