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How to evoke, with sensuous conviction; immediacy, with personal engagement; these hidden stretches of human time? How to evoke, with…
I’d like to think that this makes us better at understanding other people,… On the other hand it probably makes…
Everything I wrote was so awful that I came to a full halt; terrified of what dire nonsense would spout…
Judith Allnatt on her love of archaic words Researching her historical novels, Judith Allnatt finds inspiration in the archaic language…
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…
