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What a weaselly concept ‘fine writing’ is, anyway. Like fine dining, it may look impressive, but if you’re hungry, it…
Reality, as defined by novelists, seemed to consist of being of a certain class in a certain city, experiencing certain…
Patricia Cumper considers the unexpected reach of radio drama in Jamaica. Patricia Cumper explains how she got started as a…
The best piece of advice I received, came when I attended an Arvon course, and it was almost a throwaway…
Philip Womack considers his long-standing obsession with Sidney’s sixteenth-century epic, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Philip Womack describes his long-standing…
Facing and swallowing rejection is perhaps a writer’s most important skill. Resilience is a writer’s superpower. Facing and swallowing rejection…
Every day starts for me with The List. As this technically involves use of a pen, I feel that even…
And so I arrive at my desk, dogged and fogged by the play still hunting a producer, and the book…
Bashabi Fraser speaks with Ann Morgan about poetry, bridging worlds as a Scottish Indian, and the inspirational Rabindranath Tagore. Bashabi…
I once read that, in France, memoir is classified alongside fiction, rather than non-fiction. Perhaps there is a logic to…
Now I write books and TV for teenagers, and for adults. Some days I’ll work on the new novel in…
Men wrote the books that mattered. Women wrote stories in magazines. But as a child, the books I read were…
