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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…
In one particular light some stories end, in another they reach different conclusions or remain unfinished; neither of us is…
Tobias Jones speaks with James McConnachie about communal living and the residential community he created. Tobias Jones speaks with James…
Helen Grant’s talisman bridges eras, in history and in life. Novelist Helen Grant shares her writing talisman, a reproduction statue…
