3. Read something new
The poet Wendy Cope says she can always tell when she’s entering a particularly fecund creative period because she starts to read lots of poetry. If you never read a [...]
The defiance theory of creativity
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Creative Behaviour, one of a very few academic journals publishing reputable peer-reviewed research into creativity in all its many forms. [...]
Bolshy women are more creative
A team of psychologists in Poland has been looking at what personality traits are associated with creativity in men and women. The results of several large-scale investigations reported in the [...]
Colouring in combats anxiety
Recent research from a team led by Jayde Flett at Otago University in New Zealand suggests that an enjoyable and inexpensive way of practising mindfulness and combatting anxiety and depression [...]
Interview with Meena Kandasamy
The exiled author’s explosive second novel When I Hit You – based on her own abusive marriage – was shortlisted for both the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the [...]
The autumn edition of Mslexia is out now
Why did the Literary Editor retrain as a bricklayer? What’s the best way to respond to critical feedback? And what happened when a schoolgirl asked why there were so few [...]