Bridge
...or work. Conceived by Consultant Fellow Katie Grant, and developed and funded by the RLF, the workshops are run by experienced professional writers who have worked with students in universities...
Death and Texas
...enraged, abandoned daughter. Her murderous fury – the women in her novels are frequently murdered in grisly ways – melts frequently into anguish and a plea. You get the feeling...
Literary Frenemies
...that follows her. ‘Miss Mansfield’, the ‘companion’ of editor John Middleton Murry, fled a disastrous marriage and is, in fact, still married. Woolf, by contrast, is respected, well-connected and respectably...
One Hundred Years On
...in print in The Criterion, a quarterly British literary magazine founded and edited by Eliot himself. The first UK book edition was published by the Hogarth Press in a run...
On the Jesuit Trail
...and finally his heart (‘which had conceived the treachery’) cut out. Buckingham was then beheaded, the body quartered by a butcher, and the separate parts sent for display at various...
Tombstones Lie
...humbled by the reaction it got. So many identified with it. We were not alone. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland agreed it merited a wider audience and supported me...
Whittled Words And Shiny Sentences
...death, for example, was almost Christlike in its martyrdom. No one wanted to publish the book until an editor at Faber retrieved it from the reject pile and suggested that...
The Silver Tongued Devil And I
...was amused to see scores of middle-aged men each with an elegantly trimmed beard and silver, collar-length hair, their dark, corduroy shirts worn loosely over neat black jeans, striding unselfconsciously...
Michael Abbensetts 1938-2016
...Attendant, his first television play was broadcast on BBC2. Next, he wrote Black Christmas, a TV film directed by Stephen Frears. During the late 70s, early 80s, a number of...
Michelene Wandor
...Gardens of Eden Revisited, and her collection of short stories, False Relations, are published by Five Leaves. Her book The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Conceived...