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We all have our own “spots of time” as Wordsworth defines them, intensely felt moments at the imaginative and emotional…
Avoiding eye contact with the writing tools; laptop screen, pen, notebook, backs of envelopes, seething with undecipherable scribbles. A swift…
Penny Black on writing about an extraordinary woman. Researching her play about Emile Flöge, friend and business partner of the…
Write about what you don’t know. If you are setting out to write a novel, you are in it for…
Research is like foraging; you enter a forest looking for one ingredient and end up with several you had no…
Courttia Newland speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about taking inspiration from TV and music, diversity in publishing and his multi-genre career.…
It’s not so much individual works of literature that transform, as Literature itself; the great smorgasbord of these vividly imagined…
The writers who first deeply influenced me were the Modernists; Woolf, Pound, Eliot, H.D. All working the edges of meaning,…
Those worlds saved me during the early, lonely days, and I decided back then that I wanted to create my…
Geoff Barker, Doug Johnstone and Donny O’Rourke share their lockdown experiences. Geoff Barker shares his diary of week 9; Doug…
One driver waits, as if for traffic lights to change. Behind the wheel, she meditates, believes the road will clear…
Gardener’s block? Let’s try that: “I simply can’t mow this lawn; I don’t know where to start! How do you…
