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Stephanie Norgate on cinema’s seemingly inexhaustible fascination with writers and writing. Stephanie Norgate reflects on why are there so many…
Claim your own space. Never be afraid to step out into unknown territory, armed only with words; they will serve…
Poetry Break: Jackie Wills and Julia Copus on two poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Jackie Wills joins host Julia Copus…
Whenever I need to be reminded of why I love poetry, I turn to Jack Gilbert. He holds me back…
If I see something amazing I get filled with self-doubt, thinking I myself will never be able to reach the…
Christina Koning on researching a novel with a wartime Amsterdam setting. Arriving in Amsterdam to research a novel set during…
Steph Swainston on discovering her own Asperger’s Syndrome via writing — and its benefits. Steph Swainston describes how an autistic…
If I there is a guiding principle behind my reading — let’s call it a ‘tendency’ — it’s the idea…
In Location and the Writer, we visit London’s Grand Union Canal, the village of Little Gidding, and a famous house…
He is fearful and hopeless, shabby and disreputable-looking; even his eventual martyrdom is squalid and he fluffs his final words.…
You didn’t know that the same shifts in history writing which meant that Unstead could write history for children largely…
Beatrice Colin on the way that character and plot are intertwined. Plot is often the hardest thing to get right…
