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I still have my treasured copy of the sky-blue Heinemann edition of Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson. I still have…
When the writing is going well, my sense of self melts away; all those everyday concerns, that internal tiresome dialogue,…
Mark Morris on the joys of writing horror fiction. Mark Morris explains why he’s proud to call himself a horror…
I was a greedy reader but then I found that reading alone wasn’t enough to fuel my writing, so I…
Susan Barker speaks with Cherise Saywell about international origins, her organic writing process and living in Japan and China. Susan…
I immediately understood how I could write a similar story, and I promised myself when I returned to England I…
Call me crazy but after that first novel was out I avoided libraries. Books became alien; standing in a bookshop…
Michael McMillan on how belonging to two cultures has shaped his writing. Michael McMillan charts his beginnings as a writer…
Distractions are endless; from family, friends, bureaucrats, banks, social, and anti-social media. To write, I need to shut all that…
Rick Stroud speaks with Robin Blake about film-making, his fascination with WW2 and the merits of simple writing. Rick Stroud…
You’ve started writing your diary in Spanish since discovering that your mother reads it sometimes, but now she’s started learning…
At school I used to swallow a book in the lunch hour, and now I can do two in that…
