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Thanks to Flash-Fiction South West for publishing my story ‘Reward Chart’.

I’m in the middle of planning another writing workshop for Trowbridge Museum at the moment, ‘Writing Flash-Fiction’, so it was a lovely surprise to have a piece of flash fiction accepted by Flash-Fiction South West! You can read my story ‘Reward Chart’ here: http://flashfictionsw.co.uk/2012/04/16/reward-chart/ Read more

April 17, 2012
Why bother with Creative Writing workshops and courses?

Anyone who’s attended a Creative Writing class or workshop, or who has studied Creative Writing at any level, will have been asked the following question at least once: “Can you teach/be taught Creative Writing?” Here’s what I say in response: It isn’t so much about teaching as about being immersed in a writing community for Read more

April 13, 2012
Lovely to have my story ‘The Weight and the Shape’ on National Flash Fiction Day’s website

Very happy to be involved with National Flash Fiction Day on May 16th. You can read my story, ‘The Weight and the Shape’ on their wonderful website. Lots of information about competitions, submissions and everything FlashFiction is up there too. http://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/josephinecorcoran.html Read more

March 30, 2012
Very pleased to have a tiny story on Paragraph Planet today

My 75 word story, ‘Competition’, is featured on the creative writing website, Paragraph Planet, today. You can read it here: ‘Competition’ by Josephine Corcoran Read more

March 28, 2012
Workshop Three at Trowbridge Museum: Simon Armitage and other poets

For my final March workshop at Trowbridge Museum, on UNESCO World Poetry Day, March 21, 2012, we started by reading Paul Farley’s poem ‘I Ran All the Way Home’ (after Joe Brainard) and used the repeated phrase “I remember” as a warm-up exercise to write memories, as detailed or as fleeting as the group wished. Read more

March 26, 2012
Writer in School: I sat in the quiet classroom and I heard……

This was a writing workshop with 90 children, split into three mixed-age groups, half Year 6 (10 and 11 year olds) and half Year 1 (5 and 6 year olds). The theme of the workshop was ‘listening’ and the children started by writing continuously for about three minutes, listing all the sounds they could hear Read more

March 26, 2012