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University life will be blighted somewhat by a feeling that you can more or less cruise through the degree which…
Todd McEwen speaks with Frances Byrnes about growing up in California, and how this resulted in both abundance and healthy…
There are enough stories of great writers who are impossible to live with to suggest that having writing talent, and…
Ann Morgan considers the effect of chronic illness on her writing life. Having grown up with a chronic illness, Ann…
I only turn to the computer once the itch to get writing is very strong, and I worry that they…
Alyson Hallett shares a writing week which, for a delicious change, is actually dedicated to writing. Alyson Hallett luxuriates in…
In my spare time I would escape into any book I could find which meant that one day, by chance,…
Brian Clegg wonders why Science Fiction is often regarded as the ‘poor cousin’ of other genres. Science Fiction is still…
I am particularly inspired by writers who approach their work ever so slightly sideways. Just a step, not the whole…
Penny Black speaks with Frances Byrnes about the influence of teenage summers in Vienna and learning German on her playwriting…
Many of the books I now regard as foundational seem to have been discovered more or less by accident, often…
Gerry Cambridge on the saving obsessions of birds and poetry. As a young teenager in rural Ayrshire, Gerry Cambridge became…
