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Clare Pollard talks with Julia Copus about motherhood, politics, and being labeled a literary ‘Bad Girl’. Clare Pollard talks with…
I am a voracious and obsessive researcher, quite happy to read or at least skim-read an entire book in the…
Isabel Ashdown on the advantages for a writer of early experience of work.. The Saturday jobs of our youth played an important…
Recording these things as I look at them and telling you about them as exactly as I can gives me…
Heather Dyer, in her writing week diary, lives the dream in a campervan — or does she? Heather Dyer is…
Magpie-like I collect these tantalising fragments. They stay with me, glittering at the edges of consciousness until I pick one…
Gerry Cambridge considers some of the joys of writing – and receiving – letters, and says you should never throw…
Read the masters of the past, and learn how and how not, to write. If you think independently reading others…
Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances Byrnes about dramatic apprenticeships, adult education and finding his subjects. Kevin Clarke speaks with Frances…
If I had ever experienced a tenth of what I write about I would have long ago been consigned to…
Marcy Kahan considers how a film she first watched at the age of fourteen affected her choice of career. Stanley…
So I write about lives under totalitarian regimes, in the hope I’ll offer some sort of inoculation against political extremism.
