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Your newly chosen philosophy degree gradually morphs into a literature one, with a dose of Sartrean self-creativity. Your newly chosen…
Andrew Greig speaks with Doug Johnstone about historical fiction and Scottish culture, confronting his own mortality and the joys of…
He slapped a silver-cover version of JD Salinger’s novel down in front of each one of us. ‘Read it,’ he…
At some point, the Doom would fade enough for me to jump back into whatever I’d been trying to write…
She made us choose a poem and learn it off by heart. It would be useful, she said, if we…
Charlie Hill questions his long-held beliefs about what makes effective writing. Charlie Hill on how the closure of a train…
You don’t need to be gregarious, but you do need to be curious. As Seamus Heaney suggested, we should be…
Andrew Greig speaks with Doug Johnstone about music leading to poetry, Himalayan climbing and the importance of emotion in his…
Summer sprinted on with face masks and hand washes, and centuries-old talk about the weather had shifted to Covid. As…
I have written at least four full-length novels that will never see the light of day. A couple have been…
Having acquired an agent, you haven’t got it made: that even a top agent can send your book round and…
Michael Woods explores British birds of prey as sources of inspiration and metaphor for writers. Michael Woods explores British birds…
