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Anna Reynolds describes the challenges of turning real lives into drama. Working with a group of young carers, on a…
Katharine Quarmby spends a diary week researching and editing her first novel, a work of historical fiction. Katharine Quarmby spends…
In that shed I wrote like the wind, hitting my thousand words by midday so that I could get out…
Some people teach with harshness, but she preferred to teach with love. I try to remember to treat myself the…
Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…
Zoë Marriott on the magic of books, snatched moments of writing and Evil Cinderella. Zoë Marriott on discovering the magic…
Kerry Young speaks with Frances Byrnes about being Chinese-Jamaican, her father’s gangster life and her mother’s Catholicism. Kerry Young speaks…
My rigid writing routines are based on the belief that the repetition of rituals itself is crucial to the writing…
I don’t know how many elements of Kwei-Armah’s real life this play had in, but it made me think I…
Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…
John Keay explains why ‘history is other people’, and Tobias Jones considers the fascination of true crime writing. John Keay…
For me, the act of writing can be transformative; as a children’s writer I’m suddenly allowed to imagine that postboxes…
