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Congrats to all our Writing Prizes winners and runners-up for 2025! If you’d like to see our winners read their pieces, you can reserve a free ticket to the Creative Writing Conference on Eventbrite. Please note that the writers will be reading at the Inspace section of the conference, so you should reserve a ticket […]
SPECIAL MENTION LEWIS EDWARDS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2026 Albane Mbow is a third year English Language and Literature student who grew up in the United States and currently lives in Switzerland. Her stories explore geographical and temportal alienation, moving, growth, and change. She was co-editor of the 2nd edition of BW*E’s Nurtured magazine and photographs for […]
This is my second circle of the Moss today. When I walked with Clyde this morning, I noticed that the contractors were back on site. The fence across the central path had been reinstalled – this time with a lower, sturdier structure. This version would be easy to climb over, for anyone who was determined. […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
In this post, our Year 3 (2025-2026) student, Amy Grant, shares her inspiring journey from struggling at school to studying for a BA in Childhood Practice at the University of Edinburgh while working full-time. She reflects honestly on the challenges, the support that made a difference, and why she now believes university is for everyone, […]
We all know that monoculture is not a good thing. In a monoculture forest, every tree looks the same, grows at the same rate, and draws from the same narrow nutrient pool. It looks orderly and logical, but it’s brittle. A storm is likely to flatten the whole forest, a disease will affect every identical […]
