Cormac Murphy
English & Media at University of Birmingham
English Literature & Creative Writing graduate. I am an aspiring writer, working on building journalistic skills. My interests primarily lie in the arts. Reviewing/critiquing is a field I would like to further develop in.
Work by Cormac Murphy
- TV Review
This piece is a short retrospective review on the TV series 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' that I wrote to appear in a magazine that I was working on with some friends.
- Gerald Briscoe does Derby Day
This piece was written for a small magazine myself and a few friends were working on at the time. We had decided that we wanted a brief sport section, but that we wanted it to be about the events and the people, rather than the sport itself. Thus, the character of Gerald Briscoe was born. Under the…
- Film Review
A review of the (awful) film 'Murder Mystery 2'. My university magazine, 'The Redbrick' wanted a writer to review this film shortly after its release. I took up the challenge and lived to regret it.
- Last Orders
This is a piece of creative non-fiction I produced for my bachelor's degree on pubs in Britian post-covid. I took an ethnographic aproach to the first part of the piece - inserting myself into the article. In the second half however, I took a more traditionally journalistic approach to the topic.