David Spencer – Writer’s Block
Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t look back, don’t look down; look ahead, walk on… I looked back. Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t…
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Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t look back, don’t look down; look ahead, walk on… I looked back. Writing’s a tightrope. Don’t…
In Location and the Writer, Tania Hershman and Rick Stroud explore libraries in Manchester and London as we celebrate National…
I was influenced by Ntozake Shange’s seamless style and the choral element in Ted Hughes’ Oedipus. I was influenced by…
I do still write fiction, but it tips into life. I start with twists of yellow gold and before I…
A sentence that seems perfect when scribbled down in the middle of the night, can often appear, in the bracing…
The next best thing to stopping time is to chronicle it, and then forge its intangibility into a physical object.…
Leigh Russell on how she researches the social issues underlying her crime novels. Leigh Russell describes the exhaustive research that…
I’m proud of you. It takes guts to be a classical music-loving, poetry-writing, six-foot, teenage lesbian from Burnley. And while…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Nicola Baldwin, Marina Benjamin, Mario Petrucci, Courttia Newland, Esther Selsdon and Hugh Stoddart…
Stephen Romer speaks with John Greening about poetry, life in France and working with deeply personal source material. Stephen Romer…
You begin to not see the page, but to see yourself from across the room, looking blankly at a blank…
Richard Brautigan has a unique way of combining broad comedy with a truly desperate view of the human condition. Richard…