Review: Something Constructive by warfalcon This essay on the adventures possible in modern video games was overall pretty funny. The introduction was creative, and the description of the author’s less-than-amiable relationship with his alarm clock … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 4th November 2020
Review: Boys in Poppy Fields by warfalcon To see the spring’s new darling buds and know no innocence was kept within them. They are stained forever, colours unforgiving, in fields of blooming ruby petals, while gentle voices … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 4th November 2020
Review and summary of Failure to Launch by jennik Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn’t Grown Up … and What to Do About It by Mark McConville, Ph.D. Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020, ISBN 9780525542186 (hardcover) and … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Monday 2nd November 2020
Review of BBC podcast on Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog by jennik I listened to a Radio 3 Documentary in which wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by the late Roger Deakin. Here are some of my thoughts … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Sunday 13th September 2020
Review of ‘Terminal 2’ by Annetta Zelley by jennik The second item that I chose to review from Issue 1 of kiss me hardy is Annetta Zelley’s short story ‘Terminal 2’, which I recognise as coming from the ‘Two … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 20th August 2020
Desperate metamorphosis – The vegetarian by bellana While scanning over the bookshelves at the library, seeing a book titled, ‘The vegetarian’, while being one, was interesting. Would it actually be about someone with the same diet as … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 12th November 2019
Travel Writing, and a quick review of “With Love, From Rome” by Chloe M. by cjwright I’ve found travel writing quite an interesting form to try out during my Creative Nonfiction class. Recently, we were asked to produce a piece of travelling writing, whether on a … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 24th September 2019
Kiss Me Hardy — “In Paris”, a short story by Brigid Lowry review by cjwright A review! Dun, dun, dun. Fortunately, it’s all good things from me. I had the chance to look through the first and second issue of the Kiss Me Hardy magazine, … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 11th September 2019
Heroine role model but….-A City of Bones Review by Jessica Walden The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones By Cassandra Clare Walker books. 541pp. $22.99 NZD Rating: ★ ★ City of Bones is a young adult novel set in New York City in … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Sunday 26th August 2018