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In my role as Royal Literary Fund fellow, I again find myself an outsider; inhabiting an interesting hinterland as neither…
John Harrison on a famous ship, painted by a famous artist. John Harrison describes the last voyage of the Temeraire,…
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan became the first book I had ever read that put…
No advice has ever influenced my writing a fraction as much as an anecdote I almost certainly have got wrong,…
Sanjida O’Connell considers cottages in Somerset, and Emylia Hall takes us to the seaswept landscapes of nearby Cornwall. Sanjida O’Connell…
We are rarely ‘in’ the present. We are a jumble of past and future, trying to draw on our experience…
The daydreaming time, the hanging out the washing time and the walk to school pick-up time; where inspiration can arrive.…
Penny Hancock on literary grandparents. Penny Hancock asks why there are so few grandparents in literature, when compared with the…
The definition of ‘literary fiction’ is strange, vague and controversial, and the term does a poor job, I feel, of…
If you are one of those writers that get most of their material in this way — from the here…
Amanda Dalton speaks with Amanda Whittington about teaching, poetry and drama, and silent film on the radio. Amanda Dalton speaks…
I’ll be fairly clear about some major points along the way, but I won’t necessarily know how I’m getting from…
