Mary Colson – Life-changing Literature
I’m about to journey through a story about a love affair with books. I’m about to place my trust in…
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Rob Chapman – How I Write
I was always amazed at my mate Nigel who, after we’d spent an evening “relaxing” (in the accustomed undergraduate manner)…
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Penny Black – Letter To My Younger Self
In your heart of hearts you were a writer but you did everything under the sun not to write. You…
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Christie Dickason – Why I Write
As a writer I play as seriously as a child, and live more than once. Writing also lets me play…
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John Greening – Life-changing Literature
Although the 8mm silent version of Milton’s epic never made it to a sheet of painted hardboard near you, I…
Alicia Foster – Letter To My Younger Self
You have tried to write poems. You destroyed them all but I remember what you wrote, and you were right…
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Pascale Petit – Letter To My Younger Self
You will make worlds just with words. Worlds you can escape to. There’s nothing like it. What you’re doing now…
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John Donnelly – Why I Write
Why I write for theatre in particular is rooted in a love of ritual and the communal experience. This thing…
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Diane Samuels – How I Write
Then in the medium-sized yellow notebook, I write who am I today. This morning I was Mighty Mouse. Tomorrow I…
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Miranda Miller – Life-changing Literature
At a time when so many people are interested in nature writing, Eastern religions, ecology, gender-bending and protecting the environment,…
Jane Robins – Letter To My Younger Self
I realise that you are spending months inside the tie cupboard, selecting the aeroplane ties to be dispatched to retired…
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Katharine Quarmby – Why I Write
I would swim a mile twice a week in the local pool and imagine that my birth father would come…