Under The Influence
Brian McCabe considers the importance or otherwise of acknowledging one’s influences. In the course of his writing career, Brian McCabe…
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Brian McCabe considers the importance or otherwise of acknowledging one’s influences. In the course of his writing career, Brian McCabe…
He stood up and toured the crowded shelves of his study, picking up a book here and a book there.…
Judy Brown speaks with Julia Copus about changing career and place in her writing. Judy Brown talks with Julia Copus…
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Even though I have some sympathy for the dislocation you must have felt, I want to urge you to hurry.…
Sally Cline reflects on the way that water has shaped her writing life. From the early years of her writing…
Knowing the writer inevitably quickens the pleasure of reading the work. Olga is an unusually complete writer; all she does…
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Writing will demoralise you unless you give in to its moral shaping of experience, but nothing will stop you, as…
I am never without a book. It would be tortuous for me to be on a journey, short or long,…
Morgen Witzel shows that writing about history can be a smelly business. As a writer of historical fiction, Morgen Witzel…