“Emma worked in a time-bound manner and provided detailed and relevant feedback on my chapters. Her attention to detail was amazing throughout. In addition to taking care of my punctuation and typos Emma offered ideas for alternate terminology and paragraph/sentence structure to improve the flow of the text and make Read more…
By E.L. Parfitt, author of Seascape, Shattered Roses and Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I took some time to be creative with a pile of old scribbles I had made in a spiral notebook. Here is the result. Short story: Lies on the cliff It’s an uncertain coming of age: Read more…
Exhibition results To celebrate Coventry’s bid for the City of Culture (2021), Dr Emma Parfitt, IAS ECF Fellow, University of Warwick, and Fargo village created an exhibition in the centre of Coventry on the 26th November 2016. The exhibition involved 17 artists (from all mediums and crafts) and doctoral students Read more…
Arts exhibition information. An arts exhibition … To celebrate Coventry’s bid for the City of Culture in 2017 the University of Warwick and Fargo village are bringing artists and academics together. We are creating an exhibition of local artists work. The exhibition will invite applications from 17 artists (from all Read more…
Zombies. I was asked by Iggy to prepare a Sociological reply to the following questions regarding the film World War Z. First I would like to say that I did not enjoy this film. I was bored. This is a personal option, yet, if you want to see a good Read more…
The plot: A woman asks a raven to fetch a piece of her lover’s heart. Last month I republished my ebook Temptation & Mozzarella. This month I would like to share a link to a PDF file of the story Raven’s Heart. This is a story I created but did Read more…
Red, there’s a reason why women claim it as their colour. It’s a power colour, interwoven with our right of passage into womanhood. This month I submitted a story to the Scottish Book Trust part a fairy tale and part biography inspired by my journey to doing a PhD. The Read more…
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this” TP Sorry Terry, if you don’t mind me calling you that, but this is not THE END. You were a lover of words, a social commitator, and in Read more…
5th March, 4-6pm, Reinvention Centre at Westwood, Warwick Campus [Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreyes/] Dr Analia Meo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to discuss a short documentary called Teachers’ Views on Returning Schools. The Film looks at the experiences and views of teachers and young people at schools in Buenos Read more…
My trip to the conference (Well at the World’s End) and the Beyond the Boarders storytelling festival inspired the following short piece which I dedicate to everyone present this year. [Picture from Redbubble.com] Memories beside the sea – a micro story The trees watched the people as they Read more…