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The Scillies are the place my imagination retreats to when I’m grappling with a plot, or a new set of…
We didn’t know that the ‘Firaq’ in Ghulam Nabi Firaq was a takhalus, a pen name that poets in the…
I mentally wander. I encourage that same delicious distractibility which makes me such a poor listener at lectures. We dream…
Hugo William’s advice is that voice when I need it. My job isn’t to get better as a writer. My…
Paul Dodgson on his experience of learning Welsh as a second language. Paul Dodgson on his experience of learning Welsh…
Publication is wonderful — both euphoric and humbling. But in the days and weeks that follow a book’s release, I…
Jeremy Treglown speaks with Ann Morgan about his career as a literary biographer and critic. Jeremy Treglown speaks with Ann…
Isn’t that deadline a manifestation of yourself, your hopes, your ambitions, your drive to produce something of substance that, against…
To my parents’ credit (or detriment), they never censored anything. I loved Chuck Palahniuk’s earliest novels: Fight Club, Survivor. I…
Loneliness can take many forms. Yet the meta-loneliness, if you like – is perhaps the pain of being wrenched from…
‘Inspiration’ implies some sort of divine intervention: the gift of a thought from a capricious god. This seems unlikely. ‘Inspiration’…
Sarah Butler challenges the assumption that teaching creative writing is secondary to writing itself. Sarah Butler challenges the assumption that…
