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Be Bold! Your Creativity Needs It

By Claire Haidar 40 Comments

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Questioning and boldness are essential parts of your journey into greater creativity. Claire Burge challenges you to develop these skills.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Poets and Writers Toolkit

Spin Creativity Book: A Ticklish Excerpt

By Claire Haidar 2 Comments

Spin Creativity Book by Claire Burge

Where does a creativity book start? The best ones might begin in unexpected places. ‘Spin’ did.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Creativity, Finding Inspiration

Tweetspeak Poetry’s Top Ten Posts from the Last Month (or so)

By Will Willingham 2 Comments

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What are we reading at Tweetspeak Poetry? Catch up on the top posts from last month (or so). Featuring Claire Burge, Lakin Easterling, Daniel Sperry, Poets House and more.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry humor, poetry prompt, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree: You Can Too

By Darlene 26 Comments

Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

A reader expects Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree to be for the other people, the “creative” people. And finds out it’s for her, too.

Filed Under: Creativity

Using Lists To Prioritise Creativity In Your Diary

By Claire Haidar 6 Comments

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Creativity is a fragile thing. It needs attention daily, without interruption. Claire Burge shares how to use lists to make this happen consistently every week.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Writing Life

Poets and Writers Toolkit: Big Idea Creativity

By Claire Haidar 5 Comments

Our creativity book is filled with stories, illustrations, and activities. And helpful organizing principles like How to Break Down a Large Creative Idea.

Filed Under: Creativity, Poets and Writers Toolkit, writer's group resources

Spin Creativity Book Club: Behind Closed Doors

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

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The stories from behind blue doors intrigue Claire Burge until she finally musters up the nerve to knock on one. Join us as we conclude our book club discussion of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Creativity, Dublin Doors, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

Spin Creativity Book Club: The Darkroom

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

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In our discussion of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree we join author/photographer Claire Burge in the dark room to see what emerges.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, Creativity, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

Spin Creativity Book Club: Creativity Needs Ritual

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

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Do you have creativity rituals? What rituals sparked your creativity as a child? How does ritual foster creativity? Discuss “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree” by Claire Burge with us in our book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Creativity, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

Spin Creativity Book Club: Where Do You Hide?

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

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We’re giving creativity a place to kick off its shoes in the closet this week in our discussion of “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, Creativity, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

Understanding Creativity Backwards: Starting With The Questions

By Claire Haidar 1 Comment

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Creativity takes time to establish. It is a process, that needs to be undertaken time and again.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Finding Inspiration

Book Club Announcement: Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

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In our November book club, we’ll be getting into the mind of productivity expert Claire Burge with her new illustrated release, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Creativity

Nelson Mandela: Begun, Not Done

By Claire Haidar 12 Comments

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Nelson Mandela: what he started is not finished. I am thinking hard.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Dublin Doors: Meet Jim Larkin and Ian Fox

By Claire Haidar 22 Comments

I nearly trip and fall into his house as soon as the door opens. The paving is uneven and I don’t factor this in as I ring the doorbell upon arrival. He is rather surprised by this strange woman looking at him and seemingly wanting to come into his house without even so much as […]

Filed Under: Blog, Dublin Doors

Audio Excerpt: The Novelist by L.L. Barkat

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An audio excerpt from L.L. Barkat’s The Novelist: a novella featuring the delightful voice of Claire Burge.

Filed Under: Fiction, poetry, Videos

Dublin Doors: No 12 Lombard Street West

By Claire Haidar 7 Comments

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Welcome into No 12 Lombard Street West where Paul and Alma live behind their slate grey Dublin door. Listen in as they spin stories with Claire Burge, rich in texture and history.

Filed Under: Blog, Dublin Doors, Poems, poetry

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Should the Founding Fathers be booked for selling their used ones? Are public school students reading too much fiction? Are there too many poets writing too many poems? Which direction should I mow my lawn? Will Willingham has the answers to burning questions–or at least the burning questions–in This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Dublin Doors: 60 Lombard Street West

By Claire Haidar 13 Comments

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60 Lombard Street West is the first story in a series which will document the lives of the people behind the colourful doors of a Dublin suburb.

Filed Under: Blog

Image-ine: Defying The Queen With A Door

By Claire Haidar 9 Comments

I moved to Dublin instead and discovered not only blue doors, but purple doors, red doors, yellow doors, grey doors, orange doors, pink doors, green doors … you name it and I will hazard a guess that I could find you a door painted in that exact colour. –Claire Burge shares about her adventures behind closed, colourful doors

Filed Under: article, Blog, Dublin Doors, Image-ine, visual poetry

This Week’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Silver Forks

The best in poetry (and poetic things), this week with Will Willingham. 1 Art As an insurance adjuster, I find the term “perfect storm” an unfortunate combination of words, unless we simply mean the sort of storm which generates a lot of business for me but in which no one is hurt and only easily […]

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, poetry news, Top 10 Poetic Picks

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