.stu : OUT NOW!!!

‘.stu’ is the guide for those 18–21-year-old students coming to Manchester, who form 86% of those coming into the city. It’s a magazine that’s casual yet despite being informative, capable of fitting into any Fresher’s Fair in Manchester. From helping you style on a budget, to the top clothing stores around, we help students toContinue reading “.stu : OUT NOW!!!”

Food For Thought: What is a Dramatic Monologue?

In this blog, we’ll explore the origins and definitions of the Dramatic Monologue—where it came from and how it came to be—with a few tips and ideas to start you writing your own. The ‘Dramatic Monologue’ has existed for a good few centuries now. It was in the early 19th century that the form, asContinue reading “Food For Thought: What is a Dramatic Monologue?”

Food For Thought: Ideas For Redrafting Your Poetry

The process of writing a poem is very rarely as simple as making a first draft and then publishing it. Re-drafting is an important subject because poets must do such a lot of it. Before a poem is published, there’s always a sequence of drafts. It’s very difficult to know where to start the re-draftingContinue reading “Food For Thought: Ideas For Redrafting Your Poetry”

Food For Thought–Ideas To Improve Your Stanzas:

Food For Thought believes that a writer exists in each and every one of us. By offering knowledge with the hope of motivating you to explore new folds of poetry, Food For Thought seeks to broaden the horizon of what we see as possible to write. Today, we’ll be building upon the fundamental basics ofContinue reading “Food For Thought–Ideas To Improve Your Stanzas:”

Back To Basics: Stanzas

Hello everyone! Welcome to the first blog in the mini-series ‘Back To Basics’. Over these next few weeks, we’ll be covering some of the core fundamentals of writing poems. This series is for those who want to write evocative and strong poems, but don’t quite know how to, and for those who are just intriguedContinue reading “Back To Basics: Stanzas”