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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…
Roopa Farooki considers the struggle of diverse new writers, and Trish Cooke explores her sense of responsibility to diverse audiences…
Nobody’s looking at you and pointing and judging. You should work hard to be listened to, rather than looked at.…
I realised that you didn’t have to use bigger, abstruse words, and that simple language needn’t mean expressing simple feelings.…
A notebook must fit into a pocket, ready to receive drawings, an overheard conversation, a telling phrase. A notebook must…
