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Sometimes a story moves sideways, or you have flashbacks. The important thing is to keep the narrative flowing. Sometimes a…
Andrew Cowan speaks with Bethan Roberts about growing up working class, loving being a student and his three-phase writing process.…
The famous British psychoanalyst and paediatrician D. W. Winnicott argued that parents do not need to be perfect; they need…
Radio allowed me to develop a poetic and humorous ambiguity. In the screenplay, this proves difficult to maintain. Radio allowed…
Elizabeth Taylor is often described as a writer’s writer and there are many lessons, and warnings, tucked inside her work.…
Despite longing for a ‘room of her own’, Deborah Chancellor finds unexpected inspiration in her busy multigenerational household. Deborah Chancellor…
I write wholly for you, and a craven need for your approval, but at the same time I do not…
Alyson Hallett visits starlings in Somerset, and Tom Connolly takes us to a tiny fishing village in Scotland. Alyson Hallett…
My beat across London takes me North and South and East. Each side has a map of variations on language,…
With Tales From The Caribbean, my writing day was broken up into researching and summarising the stories, before I could…
Even at their most seductive, these projects have lacked something. They have never had that beating heart. Even at their…
How did it happen that it’s not enough to tell wonderful stories, or write amazing poems, but that we have…
