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Tim Pears speaks with John Greening about tending historical, eschewing psychology and the joy of hands-on work. Tim Pears speaks…
Writing a story is too solitary for me to stick at it for long. I want an audience, and collaborators.…
If we take ‘playing God’ to mean controlling, shaping, balancing, fore-knowing outcomes, rendering meaningful the chaos of life ; yes…
When e-books appeared there were prophecies about The End Of The Book; now the publishing industry admits that e-book sales…
Sebastian Baczkiewicz on theatrical starts and inspiring scandals. Sebastian Baczkiewicz explains his inadvertent start as a dramatic writer, and reveals…
I was scooting around the country with the band in the back of a van, listening to John Peel and…
Rhiannon Tise on why writers need peace and quiet. Searching for a quiet space in which to write, Rhiannon Tise…
I think of myself as a brand; Sanjida Kay, the thriller writer, or Sanjida O’Connell, who writes literary fiction. And…
Shahrukh Husain speaks with Amanda Whittington about myths and fairytales, literary heroes and mythic Princess Di. Shahrukh Husain speaks with…
For non-fiction, you can’t do anything chaotically, it doesn’t work. You have to be organised from the word go. For…
Perhaps what is significant for writers is not that we alone change and others do not, but simply, we have…
You can never revise your work too often. As our scatological friends remark, there are some things you can’t polish,…
