I’ve a confession to make: I’m on intravenous short stories. Call Short Story 911 because I just can’t stop. I’m addicted to stories that flare like fireworks and tilt the universe, reeling, on its side. I’m into goddamn lines and lines of stories that shoot into my brain and slam my face against windows of …
The role of cover manager has always been a challenging one. But from September 2020, it’s going to be the most challenging it’s ever been. In your school, the person who organises cover might be in a designated ‘cover manager’ role. Sometimes the person may be a member of the support staff team who has …
An exploration of the narrator’s voice in Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ Recently I reread ‘The Bloody Chamber’ for an online seminar on domesticity and danger in the story with Dr Karina Jakubowicz and Dr Trudi Tate. I hadn’t read the story for years. As both a teacher of English and a fiction writer who …
Metaphors shape how we see the world. They frame how we communicate, how we interpret, and the actions we take. According to Lumby & English (2010) "... metaphors are at the heart of our thinking and the actions that follow." Don’t believe me? We’re using metaphors in education when we talk about accelerating progress (speed), …
