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For me, writing real stories or stories based on truth is a more responsible job; it requires skill and authenticity.…
Poetry Break: Joanne Limburg and Julia Copus on poems by Matilde Blind. Joanne Limburg and our host Julia Copus discuss…
I’m avoiding the thousand yard stare of the blank page; I’m afraid of it. This is how it is before…
Wharton’s own life, so comfortable that she secretly bailed out Henry James in his old age. He never knew. I’ve…
Rhiannon Tise on why she is obsessed with abandoned buildings. Rhiannon Tise’s fascination with abandoned buildings and derelict man-made spaces…
Jon Hotten on big boxers, hairy rockers – and cricket! Jon Hotten takes us on a tour of ‘thwarted masculinity’…
Many times I’ve said I’ve had I enough, I’m getting a real job; I can’t take the uncertainty anymore. Then…
Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell about circuitous careers, conflicted masculinity and Tartan Noir Doug Johnstone speaks with Cherise Saywell…
We don’t have a name but we do have a reputation among local book groups as the most badly behaved.…
New Guinea is not at all a childish dream; West Papua is not at all a childish dream. It is…
Miranda Miller on a childhood experience that profoundly affected her. Miranda Miller describes how a troubling encounter in childhood has…
When I first heard a poet read, in a chemistry laboratory at Newcastle University, he was Ted Hughes; his gruff…
