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I was always amazed at my mate Nigel who, after we’d spent an evening “relaxing” (in the accustomed undergraduate manner)…
The writer Nicolette Jones finds herself in some surprising situations. Shanty-singing, bustle-wearing, wreath-laying, street parties, a campaign for lifeboats —…
In your heart of hearts you were a writer but you did everything under the sun not to write. You…
Sarah Salway fends off Facebook and takes a busman’s holiday in ‘My Writing Week’. Sarah Salway shares what she calls…
As a writer I play as seriously as a child, and live more than once. Writing also lets me play…
Brambling, redwing, whooper swan: Jonathan Tulloch describes encounters with winter-visiting birds. Bird-lovers note the arrivals of the cuckoo and swallow,…
Although the 8mm silent version of Milton’s epic never made it to a sheet of painted hardboard near you, I…
Christopher Wakling speaks with George Miller about leaving the law for a new career as a novelist. Christopher Wakling talks…
You have tried to write poems. You destroyed them all but I remember what you wrote, and you were right…
John Pilkington investigates the writerly practice of reimagining and reworking characters from other authors’ stories. Since Shakespeare delighted Elizabeth I…
You will make worlds just with words. Worlds you can escape to. There’s nothing like it. What you’re doing now…
Peter Forbes speaks with Carole Angier about poetic form, objectivity and the science of mimicking nature. Peter Forbes tells Carole…
