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Katharine McMahon on how writing about the past can offer insights into contemporary reality. As a writer of novels set…
I remember my own 21st birthday, and my wedding day, and I also have these imaginary memories of scaling the…
Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley about artistic self-belief, improvisatory poetry and midlife melancholy. Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley…
It does not want to be captured. It does not want to be rectangular. It wants to live its life…
Kona Macphee explains why she’s kicked the social media habit. Kona Macphee considers two contrasting states of mind—in one of…
Once you’ve subsumed your own tone to the great and the good, it’s curtains for plot development and time to…
Ruth Thomas and Mimi Thebo describe what nearly sank their writing careers, and how they turned things around. Ruth Thomas…
For me one of the most important pieces of writing advice is this: read. Read everything. I made a failed…
Catherine Czerkawska on how she came to write a series of historical novels. Catherine Czerkawska considers the pleasures and drawbacks…
I imagine The Rolling Stones worrying about disturbing the neighbours or Jackson Pollock fretting about spilling paint on his studio…
Cynan Jones speaks with James McConnachie about writing as imaginative remembering, drastic cuts and abandoned manuscripts. Cynan Jones speaks with…
As I grew I spent so many hours reading in bed that my mother took me to the family doctor…
