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Stephanie Norgate speaks with Jane Draycott about dramatising a pioneering life and the landscapes of Sussex. Stephanie Norgate speaks with…
If I read through that folder’s contents now, I’d probably find a kind of dramatic structure, a story arc; obstacles…
As I nested like a dormouse with all the pillows and cushions I could find, I discovered that I could…
I scribbled notes on pieces of paper. I’d leave them out overnight, and let slugs crawl over them. Whole words,…
Bernie McGill on the pleasures of maps. Bernie McGill on how looking at maps offers insights into long-vanished worlds, enabling…
It was my mother who dragged me to my first writing group. I was 17, and very against the idea;…
Don’t wait for the right commission, or agent, or reply, or accent, or background. None of that will happen. Don’t…
I believe very much in the spark, the little bit of magic sending a particular idea my way. I’m sure…
Horatio Clare takes us to poet-haunted Hebden Bridge, Lucy Moore celebrates London by pedal, and Curtis Jobling re-imagines phantoms in…
I wanted access to people, places, cultures, different from my own; and reading, especially fiction, seemed to give me that.…
I’m resistant to fiction that thinks itself extravagantly imaginative; magic realism, say. Because there’s usually no narrative tension. I’m resistant…
My first draft, or brainstorm, tends to be a bit of a mess, with lots of crossing out. I put…
