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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…
Dilys Rose considers how a change of narrative voice can affect the focus of a narrative. Narrative voice, whether first,…
Writers in my two groups have have won prizes and published extensively, but what is infinitely engaging is leaning in…
Dipo Agboluaje explores the effects of later boyhood in Nigeria, and Penny Hancock wonders whether she has a real job.…
I love the power that story has to change the world; the inspirational memoir of someone more courageous than I…
Don’t be too grateful to anyone for giving you work. You have the talent they need. Don’t be too grateful…
Donny O’Rourke on how the singer-songwriters of the 1970s helped to shape his poetic consciousness. Listening as a schoolboy to…
