Ahead of the announcement of the Orange prize winner, Matthew Cain looks at the boom of creative writing courses - and whether novel writing can be taught.

In case you haven't noticed, over the last 10 years Britain has gone from being a nation whose dancing skills lagged behind the rest of the world to being one almost obsessed with dance ¿ and quite sk

Tracey Emin may have escaped Margate but it will always be her first love, blogs Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain.

A Noel Coward play never performed in his lifetime reveals a darker side to the writer best known for his waspish society comedies.

The first thing that hit me as I walked into the playground was the energy and enthusiasm of the children, all wearing different coloured Big Dance t-shirts to kaleidoscopic effect. Each of them was s

Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain blogs on the musical Flahooley, a satire on America's obsession with rooting out communists, led by Senator McCarthy.

There's a heavy strain of art theory and academic thought running through the nominated work, all of which will be adapted for a show opening in Tate Britain in the autumn.

It's known as the champion of independent cinema and has helped launch films such as Reservoir Dogs and The Blair Witch Project. But now, for the first time, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving the

Book Slams are a self-styled ¿literary cabaret¿ in nightclubs across Britain, fusing fiction with live music, DJ acts, stand-up comics and performance poets.