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I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go; interesting things happen that way but you…
Draft two is actually known to the world as draft one. It’s the draft that my agent or my producer…
Amanda Dalton on adapting work for radio and theatre. Amanda Dalton describes some of the challenges of writing dramatizations of…
I don’t know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves. I don’t know…
Writing biography, one of the great challenges is to remain disinterested; to resist any temptation to identify. Writing biography, one…
Helena Drysdale speaks with James McConnachie about family archives, endangered languages and learning by asking. Helena Drysdale speaks with James…
I’m a proud black man, but let me make it clear; I don’t profess to speak for all black people.…
I distracted myself from not being able to write either a bird of prey poem, or a women wanting to…
I figure out whole narratives in two miles; if I don’t have my notebook I’ll forget the stories. I figure…
Katherine Stansfield on writing in different modes and under different names. As a poet and novelist, Katherine Stansfield has become…
Every poem, every book I’ve ever read has been a friend and a lover, good or bad. They’re part of…
The gathering clouds of certitude that trying to be a writer in what many regard as a post-literary world is…
