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That winter in France I looked at the world around me with wonder; much like snowboarding, writing is about freedom…
Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi about selfishness, Englishness and discomfort in one’s skin. Ian Thomson speaks with Gabriel Gbadamosi…
Freelancers can’t sit and wait; they have to create, or starve. But the mechanics of writing are difficult. Freelancers can’t…
I have a fatal tendency to just open a fresh page and go; interesting things happen that way but you…
Draft two is actually known to the world as draft one. It’s the draft that my agent or my producer…
Amanda Dalton on adapting work for radio and theatre. Amanda Dalton describes some of the challenges of writing dramatizations of…
I don’t know how these words arrive, or where they arrive from, but they are vividly themselves. I don’t know…
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…
